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ELLIS CORRESPONDENCE.
THE
LETTERS
WRITTEN DURING THE YEARS 1686, 1687, 1688,
AND ADDRESSED TO JOHN ELLIS, ESQ.
SECRETARY TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF HIS MAJESTY'S REVENUE IN IRELAND:
COMPRISING MANY PARTICULARS OF
THE REVOLUTION,
AND ANECDOTES ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE HISTORY AND
MANNERS OF THOSE TIMES.
EDITED, FROM THE ORIGINALS, WITH NOTES AND A PREFACE,
BY THE HON. GEORGE AGAR ELLIS.
!!
Alover, George James telling
Ellis, 1st bedron, 1797-1353
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
1829.
CONTENTS
OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
Blank
138. THE King at Hounslow.-The Jury to try the
Bishops. Other news
139. The Bishops acquitted.-O. WYNNE
140. Details respecting the trial of the Bishops
141. Farther details respecting the trial.-Other news
142. The King desires persons holding office to come
into Parliament, &c.-FRA. CAVE
PAGE
143..
144. New Privy Councillors made.-Prince of Wales
ordered to be prayed for.-Various rumours.
Foreign news
145. Various trials.-Sir John Narborough and the
Duke of Albemarle.-Magdalen College.-
Prince of Wales gives audiences, &c.
146..
147. Reported changes in the Law. Their Majesties
going to Windsor.-Foreign news
148. The Queen of Sweden at Rome.-Other Italian
news.-Marriages
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CONTENTS.
PAGE
149. Interest of Philip Ellis at Court.-The Declaration.
-Private matters.-HUMPHRY PRIDEAUX
150. Election at Cologne.-Ecclesiastical Commission.
-Fireworks on the Thames.-Blessed Clouts
sent by the Pope
151. Removal of the Court. - Prince of Wales's petition
respecting Hackney coaches and Foundlings.
Reports.-Foreign news, &c.
152. Prince of Wales's establishment.-Lord Chancel-
lor's son married.--Chief Justice Herbert.—Offi-
cial news, &c.
153. Turkish news.- Death of the Duke of Ormonde.
Rumours from France.-Duke of Albemarle
154. The Court at Windsor.-Affairs of Cologne.--A
Priest insulted, &c.
155. New Bishop of Oxford, &c.—O. WYNNE
156. Foreign news. -Changes in the Church.-Dukes
of Ormonde.-Duchess of Portsmouth gone to
France
157. Duke of Ormonde.-Prince of Wales ill and
weakly
158. Promotions and Appointments.-Movements of the
Court.-Foreign news of various kinds
159. Details respecting the death of the Duke of Or-
monde.-SIR ROBERT SOUTHWELL
160. Turkish news.-Various rumours.--Duke of Albe-
marle
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84
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161..
O. WYNNE
162. Judge Rotherham.-News Foreign and Domestic.
-Prince of Wales recovered
. 100
163. Prince of Wales again ill.-Disaffection in the
Country. Foreign news
107
164. Account of an Irish Watering-place.-J. BONNELL 112
CONTENTS.
vii
PAGE
165. A Wet Nurse procured for the Prince of Wales.--
News and accidents of various kinds
166. Court news.--Affairs of the East India Company.
-Successes of the Imperialists against the Turks,
. 118
170. Prince and Princess at Tunbridge.-Ecclesiastical
Commission adjourned
&c.
167. Trial between Sheriff Firebrace and Mr. Brett.--
Various news
168. Foreign news.--King gone to see his ships.--Ec-
clesiastical Commission
. 126
169. Dutch fitting out ships.-News of various kinds,
&c.
. 130
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171. Judge Allibone dead.-Earthquake at Smyrna.-
Council at Windsor.-Foreign news
172. Duke of Ormonde receives the University Deputa-
tion.-Dutch preparations.-Parliament to be
summoned.- Belgrade taken
PHILIP ELLIS
Kaly
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173.
174. Increase of Irish Revenue.-Praise of the Duke of
Ormonde.-EARL OF CLARENDON
175. The French King expostulates with the Dutch on
their preparations.-Other Foreign news.-Lord
Mayor thrown from his horse
176. Duke of Ormonde.-Mr. Chudleigh, &c.-Wм.
SHAW
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. 137
114
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177. Naval preparations on all sides.-News from
France and Turkey.-Medal respecting the Seven
Bishops
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135
. 147
178. Dutch Fleet and Army ready
179. Death of John Bunyan.-Roman Catholic Clergy
confirm their youth.-Charter of Chester changed.
-Various reports from abroad
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144
146
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153
158
161
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CONTENTS.
180. Trial of the Officers of Duke of Berwick's regi-
ment.-Mayor of Scarborough tossed in a blan-
ket. Foreign news, &c.
. 167
181. Queen of Portugal brought to bed.-Death of Lord
Spencer. Various news.-Queen and Princess
Anne reported to be with child
. 173
182. Memorials of French and English Envoys in Hol-
land
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PAGE
Leader
183..
184. Indian news.-Canvassings for Elections in diffe-
rent places. Turkish and German news
185. Dutch fleet at Sea.--Cabinet Council holding, and
the King present at it.-State of the Duke of
Berwick's regiment
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186. Bet between the Elector of Bavaria and the Duke
of Mantua.-Other Foreign news.-Movements
of the Court, &c.
. 193
187. Arrival of the Court.-Dutch fleet on the coast of
Holland.-Case of Mr. Skelton.-Foreign news 197
188. The King sends for the Bishops.-Changes talked
of.-Dutch fleet.-Successes of the French
189. Parliament retarded.-Fears of the Ministers, &c.
-F. CAVE
. 206
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190. King's declaration.-Privy Councillors absent.---
Various rumours
191. News-writer cudgelled.-General pardon.-Fo-
reign news.-City address to the King. Duke
of Albemarle
192. .
O. WYNNE
193. Church of England more in favour than formerly.
-Writs for the Parliament stopped.-Private
affairs. WILL. CULLIFORD
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182
185
190
201
209
213
218
219
194. State of the fleet.-King's proclamation.-The
Bishops.-Mayor of Scarborough's business 222
CONTENTS.
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195. The King retraces his steps.-Rumours respecting
the Dutch fleet, and great consternation in Eng-
land
196. John Ellis's arm broke.-Expectations of invasion,
&c.-W. SHAW
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197. City charter restored.-O. WYNNE
198. Reports concerning the Dutch armament.—King
to command his troops in person.— Monmouth-
ians missing, &c.
199. Reports from Holland.-Bankers broke.—Confu-
sion in the city, &c.
200. Proofs of the Prince of Wales's birth.-Prince of
Orange's declaration.-Last news of the Dutch
fleet.-Disgrace of Lord Sunderland
201. Dutch troops on board.-The Mob destroy the
Mass Houses
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202. Preparations for defence.-Successes of the French.
-Coffee-houses suppressed
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203. Aldermen of London restored-also the Fellows
of Magdalen College. The King exercises his
troops. Reports from Philipsburgh
204. Imprisonment of Hubert Bourke, and of Goodwin
Wharton.-The Bishops ordered to prepare
prayers, &c.—Dutch fleet kept back by contrary
winds
205. The Prince of Orange's Speech to the States
206. Full Drawing-room. Reports respecting the
Dutch.-Prince of Wales christened.-Foreign
207..
O. WYNNE
208. Irish troops disorderly.-Dutch fleet shattered.-
The King calls the Judges, &c. together.-Ill
treatment of the writer
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236.
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CONTENTS.
209. .
209
DUKE OF ORMONDE
210. No certain news.-Rumours from Philipsburgh,
Constantinople, and Holland.-Colonel Sydney's
books searched, &c.
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211..
. O. WYNNE
212. Lord Sunderland's disgrace, and reasons assigned
for it.-Rumours of other changes.-Foreign
news.-Catholic Chapel in London destroyed € 267
213. Loss of the Dutch in the storm.-O. WYNNE
214. Proofs of the Prince of Wales's birth sent to the
Princess of Denmark.-The King orders a procla-
mation.-Bishops with the King.-Rumours and
fears respecting the Dutch.-Foreign news.
215. Declaration of C. Loveseto respecting the Dutch
fleet.-CHARLES LOVESETO
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216..
O. WYNNE
217. The Dutch landed.-Troops marching Westward,
&c.-WILL. CULLIFORD
218. Prince of Orange in Torbay.-Lord Bath about to
quit Exeter.-Rumours from Scotland.-Bishops
with the King
. 276
278
219. Private business.-Prince of Orange. - King's
forces moving to Salisbury.-Changes in the Se-
cretaries of State's Offices.-PHIL. MADOX
261
266
222. Lord Lovelace and his followers taken at Ciren-
cester.- Burnet in the Cathedral at Exeter.-
Details respecting the Prince of Orange
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220. Prince of Orange at Exeter.-The country not
eager to join him.-O. WYNNE
. 288
221. Details respecting the Prince of Orange and his
army at Exeter.-The Bishop and Chapter run
away upon his coming.-Mails stopped.-Lon-
don lads unruly.-Duke of Beaufort's arm
broken
282
289
294
CONTENTS.
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223. The King gone to Windsor, and from thence in-
tends to go Westward.-Petition for a free Par-
liament.--O. WYNNE
225. Reports from Wales, and from the Dutch army.-
Foreign news.-Lord Delamere
224. The King's fleet sets sail.-Prince of Orange seizes
the King's money.-Bishops with the King.-
General news
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232. The King returned to town.-Defections to the
Prince of Orange.--Flight of the Princess of
Denmark.—The Lords sent for to the King.—
W. SHAW
233. Duke of Ormonde gone to the Prince of Orange.
-Commissioners sent to the Prince.-Private
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226. Storms at Sea. False reports.-Lord Thomas
Howard.-Prince of Orange at Bridgewater, &c. 309
227. The Declaration of the Nobles, Gentry, and Com-
mons, at their rendezvous at Nottingham.
228. Battle expected to take place on Salisbury Plain.
Defections to the Prince of Orange
229. Reports from the West.-The King expected at
Salisbury.Samuel Ellis gone away.-The Prince
of Wales gone to France.-Skirmishes, &c.
230..
O. WYNNE
231. Prince of Orange at Wincanton.--Petitions for a
free Parliament, &c.-Mr. Leveson Gower's
house plundered. Duke of St. Alban's regi-
ment
business
284. Queen and Prince of Wales gone to France.-The
King gone also.--Prince of Orange at Oxford.
Papists put out.--Burning of a Popish Chapel.--
Prince of Orange's answer
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336
342
344
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CONTENTS.
235. Dutch Officers released.-Address to the Prince of
Orange. Riots in London.-Chancellor at-
tempts to escape, and is taken.-General news 349
236. Affairs of the Countess of Ossory.-Inquiries re-
specting certain passages in the political life of
Lord Ossory, &c. SIR ROBERT SOUTHWELL 358
237. The King gone.-The Prince and Princess of
Orange at Windsor
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INDEX
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238. The King returned.-New appointments.-The
King sends a letter to the Prince of Orange, by
Lord Feversham.-Rumours of different kinds.
Queen and Prince of Wales arrived at Ostend.-
Princess Anne's entry into Oxford.-The King's
final departure; and arrival of the Prince of
Orange
362
239. Foreign news.-Details respecting the King's de-
parture; and the Prince of Orange's arrival.-
One of the Prince of Orange's guards killed, &c. 370
375
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. 377
LETTERS,
SIR,
&c.
CXXXVIII.
The King at Hounslow.-The Jury to try the Bishops.-
Other news.
London, June 28th, 1688.
His Majesty was pleased yesterday to
go to Hounslow Heath, where the camp open-
ed, and a battalion of the guards marched. His
Majesty did the Lord Churchill* the honour to
dine in his tent. In his return, he called at
Richmond, and viewed the Palace, where the
Prince of Wales is to be lodged, as the Prince
* John Lord Churchill, afterwards the great Duke of Marl-
borough.
VOL. II.
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and Princess of Denmark are to be at Hamp-
ton Court.
To-morrow (though St. Peter's day) being
the day for the trial of the seven Bishops, pre-
parations are making for it accordingly: it is a
bad wind that blows nobody good. The offi-
cers of the Court will get well by the trial for
places and conveniences to hear the same,
which are sold excessively dear. Most of the
nobility are also come up, and will be present.
The panel of the jury, as it was agreed on, is
as followeth :-
Sir Roger Langley.
Sir John Berry.
Sir William Hill.
Roger Jennings.
Tho. Harriott.
Geoffry Nightingale.
Wm. Wither.
Wm. Avery.
Tho. Austine.
Nich. Griev.
Mich. Arnold.
Tho. Donne.
Rich. Shoreditch.
Wm. Hewer.
Nich. Baxter.
Nehemiah Arnold.
John Greene.
Rob. Burre.
Geo. Ford.
Char. Prior.
Ed. Harris.
John Walton.
James Supple.
Rich. Cooper.
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Of which the twelve first will likely stand
for a jury, in case they do appear, unless some
very legal objection be made against them.
Most of them are known to be Church-of-Eng-
land-men: several are employed by the King
in his navy and revenue; and some are, or once
were, of the Dissenters' party.
On the 26th, Mr. Attorney General* prayed
judgment against several Charters and Corpora-
tions in England and Wales, that are forfeited,
for not pleading to the Quo Warranto brought
against them.
Mr. Boyle, the dancing-master, who was
lately convicted at the Old Bailey of having
seditious views, moved for a writ of error; but
it being debated whether such a writ lay or no,
the Court was of the negative opinion; and the
matter is referred to the Attorney General.
..
One La Mar, a Frenchman, and one Blamer,
were brought up to the Court of King's Bench,
* Sir Thomas Powis. Burnet calls him
a compliant,
young, aspiring lawyer." He had lately succeeded Sir Ro-
bert Sawyer, who was turned out for refusing to support the
King's dispensing power.
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to plead to an information of breaking open the
Royal Oak Lottery-box, but were remanded
again to Newgate.
We expect verses gratulatory upon the birth
of the Prince from both the Universities, and
also from the society of Magdalen College, in
Oxford, in a particular book by themselves.
We are told from Oxford, that the Convoca-
tion voted against an Act; only Obadiah Wal-
ker* and some of his friends were for it. Cam-
bridge seems also inclined to have no Com-
mencement, but it is not yet determined.
Our French letters tell us of the arrival
of the French fleet before Algiers, so that an
account of their performances is impatiently
expected.
The Count de Grammont† is dispatched by
MO
* Obadiah Walker, head of University College, Oxford.
He had become a Roman Catholic in the year 1686. The
Universities were anxious to have no public ceremonies, as a
mark of their sorrow at the state of the times.
+ Philibert Count de Grammont, brother of the Marshal of
that name, but best known as the hero of the Memoires de
Grammont, written by Count Anthony Hamilton. He lived
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the most Christian King to compliment the
Court of England upon the birth of the Prince.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the. Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
CXXXIX.
The Bishops acquitted.
30th June, 1688.
THE inclosed gives a pretty true, though
but a general account of ten hours labour;
Spence may add somewhat more. It was five
this morning before the Jury agreed their ver-
dict; Arnold, the brewer, is said to have held
out so long. About thirty temporal Lords
attended; but the crowd and the rabble, the
shouts and huzzas yesterday, and the Io tri-
umphe's to-day were incredible.* The Solicitor-
to repent of the errors and vices of his youth, and died at the
age of eighty-six, January 10th, 1707.
* « The news of the Bishops being acquitted was received
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general* kept his ground against Finch, Saw-
yer, Pemberton, Pollexfen, Levinz, Treby,†
and Somers, with great assurance, and spared
none when they came within his circle and
reach.
Mr. Ellis.
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with the highest expressions of joy throughout the whole
kingdom; nor could the King's own presence prevent his
army, that was then encamped at Hounslow Heath, from mix-
ing their loud acclamations with the rest. This last mortifica-
tion might have prevented his fate, if his ears had been open to
any but a hot party, that were positively resolved to push
for all, cost what it would."-Welwood's Memoirs.
* Sir William Williams. Burnet says the cause against
the Bishops was principally managed by him. He calls him
،.
a corrupt and vicious man, who had no principles, but fol-
lowed his own interests." And adds, "Powis (Attorney-
General) acted his part in this trial as fairly as his post could
admit of. But Williams took very indecent liberties."
+ Sir George Treby. Evelyn calls him "a learned man
in his profession." He was made Attorney-General in 1689,
and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1692. He died
in 1701.
Afterwards the great Lord Somers. "One of those
divine men," to use the expressions of Horace Walpole, "who,
like a chapel in a palace, remain unprofaned, while all the
rest is tyranny, corruption, and folly."
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SIR,
CXL.
Details respecting the Trial of the Bishops.
London, June 30th, 1688.
YESTERDAY the seven Bishops came to
their trial, which held from morning till seven
at night. We gave you an account of the jury
in our last. The first twelve stood, only Sir
John Berry was not there: they did not bring
in their verdict last night, and it is said they
had not agreed upon it this day at four in the
morning.
The Counsel, in handling the matter for the
Bishops, divided the substance of the informa-
tion into two parts, whereof the same consist-
ed; the first was, that they had maliciously,
seditiously, and slanderously made, contrived,
and published, a false and seditious libel against
the King, which tended to diminish his regal
authority and prerogative: the second part of
the plea for the Bishops was as to the special
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matter of their petition, which showed there
was no malice or sedition in it.
As to the first point, much time was spent in
proving the hands of the Bishops: that of the
Archbishop was proved and well known by
several; but that of the other Bishops was not
otherwise made out than by the belief and sup-
position of the witnesses, though their own
servants were subpoenaed against their masters,
so that the Court was of opinion there was not
sufficient proof of their hand-writing.
As to the Archbishop, it was objected, that
he could not be within the indictment, for that
it was laid in Middlesex, and his Grace had
not been out of Surrey in seven or eight
months. To this it was answered, that his
signing and writing of the petition, and send-
ing of it over to be delivered in Middlesex,
was a sufficient publishing of it there. But
the Court was divided in this point.
Then the King's Counsel alledged, that the
Bishops had owned their hand-writing in the
Council, and had also confessed the delivery of
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the petition. It was replied, on the Bishops'
side, that they had owned their hands, but
after that the Lord Chancellor had required
them to do it; and that they had done it, trust-
ing to his Majesty's goodness that no advan-
tage would be made of their confession against
themselves. But they denied they had owned
the delivery of the petition, much less that
they had published it; and there being no other
evidence of it than that they had been with
the Lord Sunderland, and had offered his Lord-
ship a sight of a petition, which he had refused,
nor did he see them deliver it to the King,
the Court said it was only a presumption, and
no proof.
As to the matter of the petition, whether a
libel upon the Government or no, the Attorney
and Solicitor-general maintained it was; for
that it boldly meddled with the acts of the Go-
vernment, declaring his Majesty's toleration to
be illegal, and thereby tending to diminish the
King's authority and prerogative royal.
To this the Bishops' Counsel replied, that they
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had done but what was the right of every sub-
ject, to petition the King, and that in matter of
conscience, and upon the account of religion,
which they were by their oaths and by the
laws of the land to take care of; and quoted
several laws and statutes to that purpose. They
urged also, that they did not declare the King's
Declaration of indulgence to be illegal, but
said only that the Parliaments of 62, 72, and
89, had declared so; whereupon the Journals of
Lords and Commons were read.
The Court was also divided in this point.
The Chief Justice and Judge Allibone said
that it was a libel, but Judges Powell and
Holloway were of a contrary opinion.*
The Attorney and Solicitor were only for
the King, and kept their ground against Pem-
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*"The Counsel for the Bishops, the ablest of their profes-
sion in all England, produced such arguments in their behalf,
that the judges were divided, two of them declaring that the
proofs did not extend to the making their petition or address
a libel, and two of them that they did, which cost Sir Rich-
ard Holloway and Sir John Powell their seats on the bench
as soon as the term was over."-Reresby's Memoirs.
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berton, Sawyer, Finch, Pollexfen, Treby, and
Sommers, who were for the Bishops.
This morning, between ten and eleven, the
Jury brought in their verdict, the Bishops at-
tending in Court, Not Guilty in part or whole:
which causes great joy.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
At Dublin.
Ireland,
SIR,
CXLI,
Farther details respecting the Trial.-Other news,
London, July 3d, 1688.
THE Jury having brought in their ver-
dict of Not Guilty upon the Bishops on Sa-
turday morning, the unruly mobile broke out
into wild huzzas and acclamations: some of the
gown were also observed to be as loud as any,
for which the Attorney-general caused one of
Gray's Inn to be seized, and bound him to
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answer to an information. The Solicitor-general
was like to catch another, but that he narrowly
escaped in the crowd.
The giddy rabble continued their disorderly
joys till Sunday morning, making bonfires all
Saturday night, and committing some inso-
lencies where they found no contributions; se-
veral were wounded, others were robbed, and
many will be called to an account this week
that the Quarter Sessions do begin.
Yesterday the Lord Mayor appeared before
the King and his Council, to give account of
those few bonfires which were made in the City
by some of too fiery and indiscreet zeal.*
"Westminster Hall, the Palace Yards, and all the
streets about, were thronged with an infinite people, whose
loud shouts and joyful acclamations upon hearing the Bis-
hops were acquitted, were a very rebellion in noise, though
very far from so either in fact or intention. Bonfires were
made, not only in the City of London, but in most towns in
England, as soon as the news reached them; though there
were strict and general orders given out to prevent all such
doings; and the clergy preached more loudly and more
freely than ever against the errors of the Latin church. The
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His Majesty hath granted out a commission
to the Earl of Rochester, Governor of the Mer-
chant Adventurers of England, and to several
others, to inspect and regulate the woollen
trade, and to give orders to prevent the expor-
tation of wool.
Mr. Tipping, of Oxfordshire, was fined
50007. for having contrived the marriage of one
Silverlock, a young gentleman of 1500l. a year,
(to whom the said Tipping was guardian,) with
a punk of his own, promising the relations of
the young Esquire she was a fortune, and
should be with him 7 or 8000l. Tipping hath
been fled into Holland these two years, for this
piece of ingenuity.
One Upmar, a famous kidnapper, was con-
victed and fined but 20s., for that he gives evi-
dence, and makes discovery against others, so
next day I waited on the King to the camp on Hounslow
Heath, where every body observed him to labour under a
very great disturbance of mind; but he spoke very kindly to
me, as I rode by him upon several occasions."-Reresby's
Memoirs.
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that sometimes the greatest offender hath the
greatest merit, if he be but ingenious.
We are very suddenly to expect out a pro-
clamation against debaucheries and sabbath-
breakers: it comes out so slowly, for that it is
to pass through many hands that are concerned
in it. It curbs even our loose houses, and re-
gulates our very sleeping; and the good wives
are well-wishers to it, for that it obliges men
and masters to keep good hours, and go to bed
betimes.
--
We hear that Esquire Sheridan doth appear
(though not very publicly) at Court; and that
he is to be remanded back again into Ireland;
the farther prosecution of his affairs being left
to the law of that kingdom.
Lady Ivy and Mr. Neale had another trial
yesterday at the Bench of Common Pleas,
where several things were given in evidence,
on both sides, of a very odd nature, touching
forging of deeds and conveyances. The jury
are to give in their verdict this day.
The same Mr. Neale has lately received a
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considerable loss by a fire that happened a day
or two ago at Tunbridge.
Lord Chancellor and William Penn were
plaintiffs in a cause, about a lease, against the
Lady Herbert, defendant; the Court of King's
Bench have remitted the said cause to be de-
termined by my Lord Chancellor himself, who
offered the lady a considerable sum of money.
An appeal is brought against one Walter
Vincent, for killing the husband of one Mrs.
Killegrew; and the Earl of Radnor* and the
Lord Chandois † were his bail.
The business of the King's Bench Prison,
between the Lord Hunsdon, on behalf of
the King, and Mr. Louthall, is put off till the
* Charles Bodville (Robartes) second Earl of Radnor.
He married the daughter of Sir John Cutler, the celebrated
miser, and died s. p. in 1723.
+ James (Bridges) eighth Lord Chandos; sometime Am-
bassador at Constantinople. He married Elizabeth, daughter
of Sir Henry Bernard, Knight, by whom he became the
father of twenty-two children.
Robert (Carey) sixth Lord Hunsdon: succeeded to
that title on the death of John fifth Lord Hunsdon and se-
cond Earl of Dover, in 1677. He died in France, in 1692.
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next term and Mr. Ellis, the new Marshal,
put in by Mr. Louthall, is to give security to
answer the profits of the place in the mean
time.
:
Some of our last German letters seem to
threaten us with the loss of the Duke of Lor-
rain, giving suspicions of poison, and despair-
ing of his recovery; others again enliven us
with hopes that the danger is over, and that he
may yet take the field this campaign.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue
of Ireland,
At Dublin.
CXLII.
The King desires persons holding office to come into Parlia-
ment, &c.
July 5th, 1688.
DEAR MR. ELLIS,
THOUGH I have given you no trouble
by way of letter since my arrival at London,
yet I will assure you no day has passed without
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some thoughts concerning you, and my per-
petual wishes of seeing you here, has been the
true reason why I have not writ to you sooner.
The truth is, I had writ to you long time since
about a little affair of my own, that is, to have
got my licence enlarged: but Mr. Cullyford
undertook that affair, and through multitude of
business slipt it. He has promised me this post
to make amends, and write to you effectually
about it; and if he fails, I shall call him to an
account for it anon over a bottle, when we give
your health. Mr. Dickinson arrived here last
week: he looks extremely well as ever I saw
him. Mr. C. and he, and I, Mr. Kitely, Mr.
Sangrove, dined together on Saturday, where
you were not forgot. Honest Mr. Sangrove
dropped a word that your ink was made of very
sharp vinegar, but nothing could oblige him
to interpret it; so the jest was lost, and so per-
haps it may be to you.
He was yesterday with the Lords of the
Treasury, the King present, who immediately
called for him up, received him with all ima-
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ginable kindness, thanked him publicly for his
good service in Ireland, told him my Lord
Deputy had writ so very kindly that he knew
how to believe enough of him, but withal add-
ed, that though he gave him very willingly
leave to stay his own time to attend his own
affairs, yet he both designed and commanded
him to return as soon as possible to his post
in Ireland: but things of this nature I know
you have from better hands. I think fit, by
the way, to let you know that when I applied
to Mr. Dickinson about this matter, he assured
me, upon his word, he had the Commissioners'
consent for my stay here till his return, and
that I should wait on him back; and you know
what an impudent thing it would be in me to
take his word for a compliment. I will now
give you the true reason why I am so zealous
in this matter, and leave it to you to be my
judge as well as my advocate. My cousin
Cooke is a man very subject to melancholy fits;
he has had some formerly upon less occasions,
but is now teazed with me upon the loss of his
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former trade, and the little prospect there is
that it shall ever return; and it is a necessity
for him to retire somewhere till time, which is
the only cure, has mended him, and which he
will not do without me, and the truth of this
Mr. C. knows very well. After this story, I
am sure I need not desire you to present my
duty to the Commissioners, and to procure a
formal enlargement of my licence, if it be ne-
cessary, and to sweeten Mr. Strong apart, from
whom I only apprehend, and yet I hope it is
without reason. Dear Sir, excuse this trouble,
and draw a bill of ten times as much upon me
here, and I will pay it at sight; and if you
please to send me word how it is reported, you
will oblige me extraordinarily.
I have told you of Mr. Dickinson already.
There was at the same time my Lord Rane-
lagh,* Mr. Cullyford, Mr. Kent, to whom my
* Richard (Jones) Viscount Ranelagh in Ireland, created
Earl of Ranelagh in 1677. He sat long in the English Par-
liament. He was at this time Paymaster to the Army. He
died January 5th, 1711.
C 2
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Lord Godolphine addressed in this manner;-
My Lord, the King commands you to stand
for Parliament-man at Plymouth: you, Mr. C.
at Cork; and you, Mr.Kent, at your own town."
My Lord said he was made by my Lord of
Bathe,* and did not know one person in that
town: it was answered, the King's interest
shall supply that. Mr. C. answered, that it was
true he had once an interest, but that there had
been two Parliaments since his being upon the
place, and that he was well informed the coun-
try gentry would approve at every election,
which would make the charge extravagant: it
was answered the King would take care of
that. Mr. Kent made the same excuse, and
had the same return. I tell you this long
story (which pray keep to yourself,) that you
may see there will certainly be a Parliament in
November. Mr. Kitely's business hangs still;
the King unwilling to break his word. E.
Peters will not admit an apostate to prefer-
66
* Lord Ranelagh had been returned for Plymouth, upon
the interest of Granville Earl of Bath.
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ment. Mr. T.,
Mr. T., the person designed, is very well
here, and cannot be prevailed upon to accept
it. Mr. K. has had a very kind message from
the King by my Lord of Dover, that he should
not be impatient, nor give over his pretensions
to what he was about, for if he were not pre-
ferred this bout, he should be sooner than he
expected; and this is all I know of your Eng-
lish-Irish affairs. I have nothing left but to
renew my request to you to transact my little
affair with your own prudence, and then I am
sure it will succeed, and rather than not hear
from you, let me have a taste of your vinegar,
raillery apart. I can be no more yours
Than I am,
Sir, your most
Obliged and faithful
Humble servant,
FRA. CAVE.
My Governor and I and Mr. C. are going to
dine and drink your health.
(No address on this Letter.)
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SIR,
CXLIII.
7th July, 1688.
WE have three new Judges made, or to
be made. Serjeant Ingoldsby, to be Baron of
the Exchequer, instead of Powell, who, with
Serjeant Baldock, are to supply the cushions in
the King's Bench of the other Powell and
Holloway, who are quietus'd. Serjeant Ro-
theram comes to the Common Pleas in the seat
of either Street or Milton, who is very old.*
Great expectations there are of other changes
in the Long Robe, but no manner of certainty.
(No address on this Letter.)
* The law changes at this time were as follows. Sir Ro-
bert Baldock, who was one of the King's Counsel on the
trial, succeeded Sir John Powell; and Sir Thomas Powell
succeeded Sir Richard Holloway. Sir Christopher Milton,
one of the Judges of the Common Pleas, was succeeded by Sir
Thomas Jenner, and Serjeant Ingleby and Serjeant Rother-
ham were made Barons of the Exchequer.
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SIR,
CXLIV.
New Privy Councillors made.-Prince of Wales ordered to
be prayed for.-Various rumours.-Foreign news.
London, July 7th, 1688.
LAST night his Majesty was pleased to
admit of his Most Honourable Privy Council
these persons following, viz. Sir John Trevor,
Knight, Master of the Rolls, Mr. Sylas Titus,*
(commonly called Colonel Titus,) and Christo-
* Silas Titus was the author of the celebrated pamphlet
of "Killing no Murder," of which the object was to incite
persons to the assassination of Cromwell. He was also him-
self one of those who were employed by Clarendon, (see Cla-
rendon State Papers,) to effect the murder of the Protector :
a scheme which was only given up in consequence of the
death of that eminent man by natural means.
He was a
mere adventurer, and served, at different times of his life, all
sides and all parties. Swift calls him "the greatest rogue in
England." He was born about 1622, and died during the
reign of King William. He was first a captain in the Par-
liament army, and afterwards Groom of the Bedchamber to
Charles the Second. He was a great supporter of Titus
Oates, and the Popish Plot: in spite of which, as we see by
the text, James made him a Privy Councillor. He was long
a member of the House of Commons.
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pher Vane,* Esquire, son of the late Sir Henry
Vane, a person of good estate in the county of
Durham.†
His Majesty is so much pleased with the
care and ability of Sir Wm. Williams, his Soli-
citor-general, particularly in his late behaviour
about the trial of the Bishops, that he has been
pleased to confer the honour of a Baronet upon
him.
His Majesty dines at the camp most com-
monly twice a week, as he did last Wednesday
with Major-general Worden, where there were
eight regiments of horse, besides six or seven
thousand foot drawn up.
* Christopher Vane, eldest son of."
young Sir Harry
Vane," who was beheaded for High Treason, June 11th,
1662. This Christopher was created Lord Barnard in 1699.
He married Elizabeth Holles, one of the sisters and coheir-
esses of John (Holles) Duke of Newcastle, and died October
28th, 1723.
+ The entry in the Diary of Henry Lord Clarendon, with
regard to these admissions to the Privy Council, is as follows:
"July 6th, Sir John Trevor, Master of the Rolls, Colonel
Tytus, and Mr. Vane, Sir Henry Vane's son, were sworn of
the Privy Council. Good God bless us! what will the world
come to!"
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Their Majesties and the Prince continue in
very good health. The King hath declared the
Prince, Prince of Wales, though he is not yet
created, and hath ordered him to be prayed for
in all churches under that title. About fifteen
days hence the Court will be removing to
Windsor, and the Prince to Richmond.
About the 10th of this month, the Queen's
Majesty intends to come abroad, her month
being then out; and to welcome her Majesty
there are eight or nine vast engines made upon
the Thames, of different forms and figures,
which are to play several sorts of fireworks
within a few nights after.
His Majesty's squadron of ships, being about
twenty-six strong with the fireships, are, all but
two, said to be sailed from the Downs towards
Sole Bay; and some think his Majesty may
speedily go down the river to take a view of
them. We hear no more of the French squa-
dron, nor the Dutch fleet, besides what their
prints tell us, that they are to be speedily forty
sail in number.
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Since the trial of the Bishops, Sir Richard
Holloway and Sir John Powell, two of the
Judges of the King's Bench Court, have had
their Quietus sent them; and it is credibly re-
ported that Serjeant Boldock and Serjeant Trin-
der (one of those newly made), both which
were of counsel for the King at the trial of the
Bishops, will be made Judges in the others'
stead.
It is commonly discoursed that there are
some other changes to be in Westminster Hall;
and if so, it is generally believed that his Ma-
jesty will have a gracious regard to the merits
and great capacities of Sir Wm. Williams, his
Solicitor-general.
What is surmised of a farther trial intended
against the Bishops before the Lords Ecclesias-
tical, is yet uncertain, there being no citations
yet gone out against them.
A great many other surmises and uncertain-
ties are invented, and industriously spread about
the coffee-houses of our town, touching his
Majesty's ministers and his affairs, but very
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often what is most generally reported proves
most false.
The Duke of Lorrain's indisposition has not
only kept back the operations of the German
campaign, but in great measure made others.
less inquisitive after the success of it. That
Duke's illness and relapse, the refusal of the
Elector of Bavaria to command this campaign,
and the late vast overflowing of the Drave and
Save, seem to be so contrived as if it were an
intimation given the Emperor from above, that
it is high time to set boundaries to his con-
quest, and to keep what he has already got;
and to that end, Fortune seems to have de-
signed a very easy conquest of those few places
still remaining to the Turks in Hungary; for
Count Caraffa no sooner appeared before Lippa,
a strong garrison upon Marosh, but the town
yielded at discretion, though there were five
thousand men in garrison.
The Queen Duchess of Lorrain* was sent
for post to Vienna upon the relapse of the
Eleanor, sister of the Emperor Leopold, and widow of
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Duke. The little hopes the physicians gave
her of his life made her disconsolate; and what
more distracted the Emperor's Council was,
factions and divisions that were like to grow in
the army, by the absence of the two Dukes.*
The boors and countrymen about Canissa
have desired the Emperor to employ his troops
elsewhere, and to give them leave to reap the
honour of taking that place, which they may
the easier do, it being already half starved, and
there being but one causeway to lead provi-
sions into it.
There is the old struggling at Cologn for the
Electorship; and the Cardinal of Furstembergh's
pretensions are the more perplexed, since that
the Pope has granted two briefs in favour of
his competitors.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland.
at Dublin.
Michael Wiecnowiecki, King of Poland; re-married to Charles
the Fifth, Duke of Lorraine.
* Of Bavaria and Lorraine.
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SIR,
CXLV.
Various trials.-Sir John Narborough and the Duke of Albe-
marle.-Magdalen College.-Prince of Wales gives au-
diences, &c.
London, July 8th, 1688.
THE term is now ended, but by the
shortness of it, several businesses were put off
till the next term; as, the dispute between the
Lord Hunsdon and Mr. Louthall, about the
Mastership of the King's Bench Office; nor
did the Court pronounce judgment in the case
of the Quo Warranto's, but hath put it off till
it be argued again.
Mr. Neal hath gained a verdict against the
Lady Ivy at last, as she did against him once
or twice before; and some think the question
about the forged writings may again be stirred.
The twelve Judges have considered the plea
of Charles Deering, Esq. upon the appeal of
Mrs. Goring; and all were of opinion that the
plea was nought, except Judge Street.
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The fine of 50007. imposed upon Mr. Tip-
ping, mentioned in my last, was argued again,
and the question seemed to be, whether he,
being outlawed, and so having forfeited all he
hath to the King, ought to be fined besides: it
is put off to a farther day.
Since the trial of the Bishops, it has been
commonly discoursed as if the Judges Hollo-
way and Powell were to have their Quietus,
and that Serjeant Boldock and Trinder are to
succeed them: a few days may clear the point.
Sir John Narborough is still a-fishing upon
the Spanish wreck, and is said not to have reco-
vered above 20 or 30,000l. by reason that there
lies a prodigious quantity of indigo and coral,
which covers the silver, and it being in deep
water, cannot be so easily cleaned by the divers.
The Duke of Albemarle is said to have dis-
covered a mine of silver in Jamaica, and most
of his Grace's family have had the good luck
to win at play very large sums from several in
the island, that had been a-fishing upon the
wreck, so that they parted with it freely as
they found it.
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The new society of Magdalen College in
Oxford, having examined the treasury of the
College, found among other things, 300 pieces
of old gold, but with this injunction of the
founder, that that money is not to be em-
ployed any way but in repairing of the Col-
lege, in case of fire.
The talk of the coffee-houses will have it,
that the Lords Commissioners Ecclesiastical
are to take some of the clergy to task for not
reading the Declaration; others will have it, that
a new proclamation will issue out to order the
reading of it again: but all this is uncertain.
The Prince is in very good health, and hath
given audience to several foreign ministers;
the Lord Mayor of York is come to town to
kiss the Prince's hand, and to present him a
purse of gold, as the Lord Mayor of London did.
The Queen is in public again, and is to name
a day for the fire-works on the River.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
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CXLVI.
London, July 10th, 1688.
DEAR SIR,
I AM just returned from a Western ex-
pedition of five weeks, where my time was
somewhat better spent than last year. I found
yours at my return, of the 5th of last month,
and my Prior alive now, learning to crawl;
your Bishop* with him taking Kensington air.
Many alterations talked on in our Court. Two
new Privy Councillors on Friday next: Caryll,
the Queen's Secretary, and Major Bremer.
The young Prince+ is ill, but it is a secret. I
think he will not hold, and that must be the less
so for being a general opinion.
Yours,
J. F.
Mr. Ellis.
The Foreign Ministers Zulestein and Count
* Philip Ellis.
+ The Prince of Wales.
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Grammont stay to see the issue, and there is
more than one in being.
Let yours hereafter be left for me with Mr.
James Dalton at the General Post Office.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary of His
Majesty's Revenue in Ireland.
Ireland.
SIR,
Dublin.
CXLVII.
Reported changes in the Law.-Their Majesties going to
Windsor.-Foreign news.
London, July 10th, 1688
}
THE many reports which were lately
spread abroad of considerable changes being to
be made at Court, as well as among the chief
men of the long robe, are again vanished; the
Lord Chancellor* and the Chief Justice† con-
* Jefferies.
↑ Sir Robert Wright. He had succeeded Sir Edward
Herbert, and continued Chief Justice till after the Revolu-
tion. Roger North says of him, that "he was a creature of
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tinuing as they were, and the Attorney and
Solicitor being to go the circuits, which they
would have hardly done, if greater honour than
that of a Baronet, or greater preferment than
the Solicitor already hath, had been near at
hand.
Some words are said to have passed between
the Lord Chancellor and the Master of the
Rolls, but all matters seem to be made up
again, and all things to be left as they were.
*
Several others are named in the common dis-
course of the town, as likely to be added to
the number of the Privy Council, and most of
them are country gentlemen, such as two of
the last are, but we will spare their names till
a greater certainty.
Yesterday it was commonly reported, though
Jefferies's, and a tool that would do any thing."
"A dunce
and no lawyer; not worth a groat, having spent his estate by
debauched living; of no truth nor honesty, but guilty of
wilful perjury to gain the borrowing of a sum of money."
See Life of Lord Keeper Guilford, and that nobleman's con-
versation with James respecting the character of Wright.
* Sir John Trevor.
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without any grounds or reasons, for what yet
appears, that the Earl of Sunderland, Lord
President, in consideration of his great services
done to the Crown, is to be removed from his
office into a higher; but this will want time to
confirm it.
Their Majesties intend to remove to Wind-
sor about the 24th instant, at which time the
Prince will be placed at Richmond, and the
Princess may likely go to Tunbridge, where
the fire (we have already mentioned to have
happened of late) consumed about 20007. worth
of buildings belonging to Esq. Neill, though
that doth not at all seem to diminish the com-
pany and concourse thither.
We have it from abroad, that the Elector of
Bavaria, rather than the Christian cause against
the Turks should longer suffer by his opinious-
ness and absence, hath generously offered him-
self to command the German army; and though
there were several factions in the Emperor's
Council, some for, others against it, yet there
being then but little hopes of the Duke of Lor-
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rain's recovery, at least of his being able to serve
this campaign, it was resolved that the Elector
of Bavaria should command in chief, and was
accordingly to set out the 5th instant at far-
thest.
The Duke of Lorraine's distemper is said to
be that which is very modish in another Court
and country, a fistula; and the letters newly
arrived, revive our hopes he may escape, for
that an incision having been made, and a vast
quantity of matter issuing out, that Prince has
found great ease, and seems to be in a fair way
of recovery.
Yesterday was likely a critical day at Co-
logne, being the day appointed for the choosing
that Elector. The contestations are supposed
to be very sharp; the two main weapons, of
money and self-preservation, clashing on both
sides: the Cardinal of Furstembergh want-
ing no French money to support his preten-
sions, and having the French forces to back
them; Prince Clement of Bavaria, having
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left him by the late Elector's will, to spread
and spend amongst his friends, and the interest
of the Empire (in opposing the French) lying
on his side.
The Empress* uses all arts and interest to
oppose the Cardinal, and would rather that her
own brother, the Prince of Newburgh,† who is
Bishop of Breslau, should succeed than any
body; yet the Pope is inclined for the Prince
of Bavaria, and is said to have sent him his dis-
pensation even before the election, which the
French look upon as a piece of partiality.
The Cardinal, seeing these potent adversaries
on all parts, and knowing himself to have the
strongest side, yet, to make his title more
plausible, hath consulted the civilians of those
Eleanor Magdalen, daughter of Philip William Count
Palatine of Newburg, married October 15th, 1676, to the Em-
peror Leopold, whose third wife she was. She was the mo-
ther of the Emperors Joseph I. and Charles VI. She died
January 19th, 1720.
+ Joseph Clement, who became eventually Elector of
Cologne, and who is mentioned a few lines before "Prince
Clement of Bavaria."
as
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countries, whether, in the interregnum of the
Electorship, he might take the Government
into his own hands: who have all answered in
the negative, for that his coadjutorship was
not confirmed by the Pope.
The Princess of Bavaria's marriage with the
Prince of Tuscany * is said to be again in dan-
ger of breaking off, upon a punctilio between
the Elector of Bavaria and the Great Duke,
who shall sign the treaty in the first place.
The opinion of the Quietists † is said to be
* Violante Beatrix, sister of Maximilian Emmanuel
Elector of Bavaria, and daughter of the Elector Ferdinand
Maria and of his wife Henrietta Adelaide of Savoy, married
in 1689 Ferdinand Hereditary Prince of Tuscany, and son of
the Grand-duke Cosmo the Third. Ferdinand died in his
father's lifetime without children, and his next brother Gas-
ton was the last Grand-duke of the House of Medicis.
+ The Quietists were the followers of Madame Guyon, the
enthusiastic religionist of the time of Lewis the Fourteenth,
who, as well as her follower the virtuous Fenelon, was
cruelly persecuted for the opinions she held and propagated,
and which were called "Quietism."-" Elle prêchait le re-
noncement entière à soi-même, le silence de l'âme, l'anéantisse-
ment de toutes ses puissances, le culte intérieur, l'amour pur
et désintéressé (de Dieu), qui n'est ni avili par la crainte, ni
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broke out anew in several places of France and
Italy.
We hear nothing of any action yet done by
the French fleet.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
At Dublin.
Ireland,
SIR,
CXLVIII.
The Queen of Sweden at Rome.-Other Italian news.-
Marriages.
London, July 12th, 1688.
OUR French letters would fain insinu-
ate us as if the Swedish Envoy at that Court,
having made overture in the behalf of the
King his Master,* for that Crown's renewing
its former alliance with France, and for its
being engaged to traverse the designs which
animé de l'espoir des récompenses."-Voltaire, Siècle de
Louis Quatorze.
* Charles the Eleventh, King of Sweden, best known as
the father of the heroic Charles the Twelfth.
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the new Elector of Brandenburgh may enter-
tain in favour of the House of Austria, on
condition satisfaction be given it as to the
pensions still owing it; several millions had
accordingly been taken out of the treasury to
that purpose; but this piece of news coming
through so suspicious a channel, will require
great confirmation, having indeed more the
air of a French novel's policy, than of the
truth of history.
The letters from Rome confirm that the
Queen of Sweden* having had notice that a
Neapolitan, accused of enormous crimes, had
been taken up in her quarter of Franchises, she
immediately sent to the Cardinal-governor, to
require his being set at liberty, and that other-
wise she would send to free him out of prison
by main force; and the Cardinal having made
* Christina Queen of Sweden, who had abdicated the
throne of Sweden, and was now settled at Rome, where she
died April 19th, 1689. The anecdote of her in this letter is
very characteristic, and well worthy of the cruel murderess
of the unhappy Monaldeschi. She appears to have been alto-
gether one of the most hateful women that ever lived.
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answer, that in such case he should make his
complaints to the Pope; the Queen in anger
sent to fetch him that accuses the malefactor,
and detaining him prisoner in her palace, told
him that if he did not procure the prisoner to
be released in two hours' time, she would have
him thrown down out of the windows. The
Cardinal-governor fearing this might cause
some disorder in the city by the union of the
Ambassadors, thought the best expedient would
be to let out the prisoner, saying, they had mis-
taken him for another, and by this means satis-
fied both the Queen and the Pope.
Our Italian advices acquaint us with a tragi-
cal story, that two persons who were contract-
ed, repairing to a church in the country of Orto
to marry, the priest having asked the lady
if she accepted the person to whom she was
betrothed for her true and faithful husband,
she answered, no; which very much surprised
all the company. The priest, thinking this ne-
gative to have come from her heedlessly, reite-
rated his demand twice more; but the fair one
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persisted in her first answer, which provoked
the bridegroom to such a degree, that without
respect of place or persons, he immediately
stabbed his bride; but one of her lovers being
then in the church, did instantly revenge his
mistress's death, for he rushed upon her mur-
derer with his sword in his hand, and sent him
to wed her in the other world. This raised
such a tumult on all sides, that seven were
killed, and many wounded in the church.
Our last Neapolitan letters left them still
under dreadful apprehensions of the earthquake,
it having been still reiterated, though above
seventy thousand persons are said to have
already perished.
The Lord Cornbury* is said to have been
>
* Edward Lord Cornbury, afterwards third Earl of Cla-
rendon. He married Catherine O'Bryen, sole daughter of
the Lord O'Bryen, eldest son of Henry sixth Earl of Tho-
mond, by his wife Lady Catherine Stuart, sister and sole
heiress of Charles last Duke of Richmond and Lennox, and
also sole heiress of her mother Catherine daughter of the
Lord Clifton; which barony she inherited. Henry Lord
O'Bryen was one of the persons lost in the Gloucester fri-
gate, (which was wrecked upon one of the Yarmouth sands,
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married on Tuesday last to the Lady Obrian,
sister and heiress to the Lord Obrian, who un-
happily perished with the Glocester frigate:
the Earl of Thomond giving 60007. with her
at present ;* and, after the decease of Sir Joseph
called the Lemon and Oar,) while accompanying James Duke
of York to Scotland,-upon the occasion when the Duke is
said to have been more anxious about saving his dogs than
his friends. Lord O'Bryen's widow had remarried with Sir
Joseph Williamson. The issue of Lord Cornbury's marriage
was a son, Edward, who died at the age of twenty-two, un-
married, and two daughters, whereof Catherine died single,
and Theodosia married John Bligh, Esq. and carried the
barony of Clifton into the family of Lord Darnley.
* In the Diary of Henry Lord Clarendon is the following
account of the marriage, which does not agree with what is
said in this letter respecting the bride's present fortune:
"July 10th, 1688. When I came home from prayers in the
morning, my wife told me my son was gone away with Mrs.
O'Brian, my Lady Catherine's daughter: which struck me to
the heart. The more I think of it, the more it troubles me.
I had been in treaty this last year with my Lady Catherine
and Sir Joseph Williamson, for this young lady, at my son's
desire, for I had no kind of acquaintance with them; but
finding she had no portion, without which I can make no set-
tlements, and that her estate does not come to her part till
the Duke of Richmond's debts are paid, which are still near
14,000l. I broke very fairly off. It is the most inconvenient
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Williamson's* lady, an estate of 6000l. per
annum, it is said, will descend to her.
match that could have been for me; a young woman oddly
bred, no manner of advantage, and an unavoidable charge.
Besides, it is a base thing, and unbecoming a man of honour,
to steal a child from a parent, and what no man would will-
ingly have to be his own case. I thank God I had no hand
in it. O Lord! make me able to bear this irrecoverable blow.
Good God! that my poor family should be brought into utter
misery by him who was the only hopes of raising it. O Lord!
my heart is even broke! My brother, whose kindness is
never wanting, quickly came to me, but I told him I would
not see my son, nor take any notice of the match. He went
then to my Lady Catherine, who was full of indignation; as
I confess she had reason to be. My wife, who had always
been as fond of my son as if he had been her own, helped him
all she could in this match, believing it a convenient and ad-
vantageous match for him; but finding I was so much troubled
at it, she took a lodging for them in Leicester Fields, whither
they came in the evening. It seems they were married at
Totteridge." By subsequent entries in Lord Clarendon's
Diary, it appears that all parties were shortly after this
reconciled to the marriage in question.
* Sir Joseph Williamson had been Secretary of State du-
ring a part of the reign of Charles the Second, and had also
been employed in a diplomatic capacity. Evelyn gives by no
means a flattering character of him. "Sir Joseph William-
son, Secretary of State, was son of a clergyman somewhere in
Cumberland, brought up at Queen's College, of which he
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On the latter end of the last week, Madam
Anne Capell, the late Earl of Essex's daugh-
ter, was married to the Lord Morpeth,* but,
came to be a Fellow; then travelled with
and returning when the King was restored, was received as a
Clerk under Sir Edward Nicholas; Sir Henry Bennett (now
Lord Arlington) succeeding, Williamson is transferred to him,
who loving his ease more than business (though sufficiently
able, had he applied himself to it,) remitted all to his man
Williamson, and in a short time let him so into the secret of
affairs, that (as his Lordship himself told me) there was a
kind of necessity to advance him; and so by his subtlety,
dexterity, and insinuation, he got now to be Principal Secre-
tary; absolutely Lord Arlington's creature, and ungrateful
enough. It has been the fate of this obliging favourite, to
advance those who soon forgot their original. Sir Joseph was
a musician, could play at Jeu de Gollets, exceeding formal, a
severe master to his servants, but so inward with my Lord
Obrian, that a few months after that gentleman's death he
married his widow, who, being sister and heir of the Duke of
Richmond, brought him a noble fortune. 'Twas thought they
lived not so kindly after marriage as they did before. She
was much censured for marrying so meanly, being herself
allied to the Royal Family."-Diary, vol. i.-Sir Joseph died
in 1701, having been a great benefactor to public endowments
and charities.
* Charles (Howard) Viscount Morpeth, and on the death of
his father in 1692, third Earl of Carlisle. He held at diffe-
rent times of his life various offices of honour and trust, and
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through the greenness of their years, do not
yet cohabit together.
His Majesty is said to have given order, by
reason of the heat and frequency of the small-
pox, that the Lady Governess permit no people
to see the Prince.
The Queen's guard-chamber at Whitehall is
embellished like that of the King, with arms
and armour hung round the walls.
The Lord Godolphin is said to have gone
yesterday to prepare the lodgings for his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales's reception.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
was the builder of the noble mansion of Castle Howard.
He died January 1st, 1738; having married Lady Anne
Capel, only surviving daughter of that illustrious and patriotic
nobleman, Arthur first Earl of Essex, whose mysterious end
in the Tower has caused so much comment and speculation.
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SIR,
CXLIX.
Interest of Philip Ellis at Court.-The Declaration.—Private
matters.
Norwich, July 12th, 1688.
IT hath been so long since I have heard
from you, that I begin to fear I must lose your
correspondence. I confess we are now at a great
distance; however I should be loth our old
friendship should be forgotten. Your brother
being now a great man at Court, I have been
expecting that by his interest a translation
might be procured for you to some place in the
English Court, as advantageous to you as that
you have in the Irish; and I hope some time
or other it may be done, that I may have my
good friend again, where I may sometimes
have the happiness of enjoying his conversa-
tion. Things look cloudy upon us here, and
the matter of the Declaration hath, I fear, put
us much under the King's displeasure; how-
ever, I thank God, we still live in quiet, and if
God continues that, we may be content pati-
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ently to bear all things else. At present we are
only hurt in imagination, and our greatest tor-
ment is our fears of what may after happen;
but I hope they will prove to be only fears, and
nothing else. I hope, when you come into
England, you may think Norwich worth your
seeing, when you have a friend here that would
so heartily make you welcome. I have now
lived here two years in great content, it being
the most delightful city of any I have seen in
England for a man to live in, especially in our
district, which hath all sorts of conveniences
to recommend it to our satisfaction. There is
still some money due unto you from me, and it
hath lain in London for you now near these
two years, but it being the last account I am
like to make with you, I would gladly have
your full discharge when it is paid you, and
therefore I hope your occasions may ere long
call you to London, and then all things shall
be made even between us. I confess I am the
more cautious, because the last 157. paid you
had like to have been lost through the death of
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your kinsman, to whom it was to be paid, and
I only owe it to Mr. Pitt's negligence in omit-
ting to give him the bill when he ought, that
it was not. Pray favour me to let me hear
from you when you have leisure, and you will
very much oblige,
Sir,
Your most affectionate and faithful
Humble servant,
HUMPHRY PRIDEAUX.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to
the Treasury in
VOL. II.
Dublin:
* This letter was written by the learned and pious Hum-
phrey Prideaux, the Author of many works of Divinity, and
especially of the admirable "Connexion of the History of the
Old and New Testament," which has caused his name to be
known and revered even in our own times. At the time he
wrote this letter he was settled at Norwich, of which cathe-
dral he was a prebendary, having left Oxford, where he had
previously resided, in consequence of James's imposing a
Roman Catholic dean upon Christ-church. In the end of
this year he was made Archdeacon of Norwich, and in 1702
became Dean of the same place. He closed his long and
useful life on the 1st of November, 1724, at the age of seventy-
six.
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SIR,
CL.
Fire-
Election at Cologne. — Ecclesiastical Commission.
works on the Thames.-Blessed clouts sent by the Pope.
London, July 17th, 1688.
On Friday last, as we have already men-
tioned, we had the news of the late election
at Cologne, how that Prince Clement of Bava-
ria was chosen Elector of that diocese, notwith-
standing all the intrigues and opposition of
Cardinal Furstembergh. The news came by
express to Bruxelles just as the post for Eng-
land came away, so that we have not yet the
particulars: we may so far guess at them as to
assure ourselves great endeavours were used on
both sides, and whatever interest the one made,
that the other still countermined it; and as the
French seldom failed before in their game, so
it is clear when others use the same charms
with themselves, they may conquer. It was
likely a false step in the Cardinal in not put-
ting some French troops in the city, which
would have much influenced his party, but as
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that would likely have intimidated the electors,
in appearance at least, so, for aught we know,
the Cardinal may yet protest against this elec-
tion for several reasons; as first, for that large
offers of money are said to have been made
underhand by the partizans of Prince Clement,
which will with little rigour of law be ex-
pounded to squint towards what some call
simony; secondly, the Pope will be protested
against for seeming to act so partially in favour
of Prince Clement, being said to have granted
dispensations to the Prince before he was
elected. One ill consequence of this election
may happen to be a dispute about the evacua-
tions of those places into which some of the
Cardinal's troops are entered, of which time
must give us an account.
The discourse here at present is what will be
the end of the order of the Lords for Ecclesiasti-
cal Causes, whereby all Archdeacons and Chan-
cellors are required to send the names of
such clergymen in their dioceses as have and
have not read the Declaration.
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•
Sir John Narborough is said to have been
taken ill of a fever, and to be dead; but this
will want confirmation.
My Lord Mordant* is said to be arrived.
This evening the fireworks upon the Thames
will be played: the devices of them are very
ingenious, and too long to be here inserted.
There are several thousands of balloons that are
to be shot into the air, and then to fall into the
river, and represent several figures. There are
twelve mortar-pieces, that are to cast granado
shells into the air, which, when they break,
will discover odd mixtures and shapes. The
figure of Bacchus represents Plenty, out of
whose great tun and belly are to be discharged
about eight or nine barrels of combustibles.
There are also two large female figures, which re-
present Fecundity and Loyalty; the emblems of
the first are a hare and a hen and chickens, each
of which are, in their proper time, to act their
part in the magnificent show of this evening.
* Afterwards the celebrated Earl of Peterborough. He
had been with the Prince of Orange in Holland.
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Letters newly arrived from Flanders confirm
to us the election of Prince Clement of Bavaria,
but we have not time to insert farther particu-
lars, than that the first thing the Chapter did
was unanimously to agree that he that should
be chosen Archbishop and Elector, should not
take possession of the Regency before such
time that he had his confirmation from the
Pope. These advices add, that the Bishop of
Breslaw was gone for Munster, with a fair
prospect of obtaining the prelacy.
Our Italian letters continue to speak of the
dismal confusion occasioned by the late earth-
quakes: that they had now again taken out 400
persons alive from under the ruins of the houses,
and among others a lady with child, who,
through a kind of miracle, had there continued
buried, though alive, for eleven days together,
even without drinking or eating. And that a
pillar of fire had been seen to fly in the air over
the city of Coritto.
At the same time, they tell us of the extra-
ordinary joy at Rome upon the birth of the
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Prince of Wales, and that it was expected
his Holiness would suddenly nominate M. Bar-
berino, or some other prelate, to carry his
Royal Highness the blessed clouts.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
SIR,
at Dublin.
CLI.
Removal of the Court.-Prince of Wales's petition respect-
ing Hackney-coaches and Foundlings.-Reports.-Foreign
news, &c.
London, July 19th, 1688.
ORDERS are given for carriage and
other necessaries for the removal of the Court,
to be ready next Monday; and on Tuesday
their Majesties depart for Windsor, the Prince
to Richmond, and the Princess of Denmark to
Tunbridge.
It is yet uncertain whether the King designs
a progress this summer; if so, it will likely be
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towards York. But the Scots would have it
somewhat farther.
The Lady Marquess of Powis, governante to
the Prince, hath taught his Royal Highness
a way to ask already: for, few days ago, his
Royal Highness was brought to the King with
a petition in his hand, desiring that 200 hack-
ney-coaches may be added to the 400 now licen-
sed, but that the revenue for that said 200
might be applied towards the feeding and
breeding of foundling children.
The Judges were introduced to the King
last Sunday by the Lord Chancellor, and had
their charge and instructions given them before
they go their circuits. It is said they are to
repeat the same assurances to the Counties, that
his Majesty is resolved to convene a Parlia-
ment in November, and to direct that such
members be chosen as will comply with his
*
""
*" June 13th, 1688.—In the afternoon I was with my
Lord Chancellor. As for the Judges, said he, they are most
of them rogues.”
"Aug. 13th, 1688.-I was at Bulstrode.
Lord Chancellor talked to me very freely of all affairs, called
the Judges a thousand fools and knaves."-Entries in Lord
Clarendon's Diary.
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Majesty's intentions, which are for the ease and
quiet of his subjects.
What is said of the Prince of Orange having
sent five Dutch men of war, and their having
made a descent upon St. Christopher's, and dri-
ven the French thence, and seized the place by
way of reprisals for what the French did at
Orange, is very uncertain, and is an invention
of those that love to feed the town with the
air of novels.
Mr. Harcott, a Justice of Peace of Isling-
ton, was one of the jury which acquitted the
Bishops. He did a little before, or after that
time, promise to give his consent and interest
for repealing the penal laws and tests; but last
sessions at Hicks's Hall, he made a formal mo-
tion and desired to be heard, saying, that he
was heartily sorry and penitent for what he
was tempted to do against his conscience, in
promising to repeal the laws of the land, and
he utterly recanted and retracted what he had
before said and done. He is a man of a red-
dish complexion, and was ever fickle in his
resolutions.
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As to the election of Cologne, we have these
farther particulars: that the Cardinal had 13
votes, and Prince Clement but 10, yet the last
had the Pope's bull and dispensation; and which
soever had it not, must have had two-thirds of
the votes on his side, which are in all 23 in the
whole chapter. Besides that, if the Cardinal
had had two-thirds and a dispensation, yet he
could never have been a complete Elector, for
the Emperor will never consent to give him
investiture, which is essential to all members of
the Empire. So that Prince Clement, having
the Emperor, the Pope, and all Germany, as
well as the laws, on his side, will no doubt be
declared Elector, and nothing but the French
cannon-law can hinder it. In the mean time, the
Cardinal is putting his French troops into the
towns and garrisons, and we may in time hear
how this dealing of the Pope will be resented
by the French King.
Fresh propositions of peace were sent to the
Emperor from the Turks: how far this will be
relished we may know in few days.
Two thousand bombs are thrown into Al-
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giers, but without any great success, which the
Algierines have answered by shooting into the
fleet the French Consul's head.
An eagle is said to have been seen flying
over the city of Paris, to the great astonish-
ment of the beholders, and that he perched
upon or near the statue of the French King,
set up in Place Saint Victoire,* where the peo-
ple, luring of him with meat, drew him down
and caught him, and being a foreign bird, may
be in danger of the Bastile.
The mobile at Amsterdam did, at the Eng-
lish Consul's celebrating the birth of the Prince
of Wales, commit such rudenesses as require
severe resentment.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
at Dublin.
*This was the pedestrian statue of Lewis the Fourteenth,
set up in the Place des Victoires at Paris by the Marshal
De la Feuillade at his own expense, and at the feet of which,
by a refinement of flattery rarely equalled, the Marshal in-
tended to be buried. For this purpose, he had contrived a
subterraneous passage under the Place, which ended in a
vault constructed exactly under the statue.
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SIR,
CLII.
Prince of Wales's establishment.--Lord Chancellor's son
married.—Chief Justice Herbert.--Clerical news, &c.
London, July 21st, 1688.
AN establishment of the Prince of
Wales's household is made, wherein Sir Ste-
phen Fox is said to have had a hand, and in
most places to have put those that are or were
his own servants and relations.
On Tuesday last was solemnized the mar-
riage of my Lord Chancellor's son* with the
daughter of the late Earl of Pembroke,† in
* John Jefferies, afterwards the second and last Lord Jeffe-
ries. He died in 1703. There is a strange story told of this
Lord with regard to Dryden's funeral, in Wilson's Memoirs of
Congreve; but which appears, from Mr. Malone's researches,
to have been exceedingly incorrectly related, if not entirely a
falsehood. It may be found in all accounts of the life of
Dryden.
+ Philip (Herbert) seventh Earl of Pembroke, married
Henrietta de Querouaille, youngest sister of the Duchess of
Portsmouth, and died August 29th, 1683. The sole issue of
this marriage was a daughter, Charlotte, married to John
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favour of whom against the present Earl a
decree passed in Chancery this last term: her
mother, who is the Duchess of Portsmouth's
sister, was present at the marriage, and though
she be a Roman Catholic, yet consented the
marriage should be performed by a Protestant
minister. This match affords matter of dis-
course.
A patent is passing for Lord Chief Justice
Herbert of the manor of Oatlands,* one of the
second Lord Jefferies, by whom she became the mother of an
only daughter, Henrietta Louisa, afterwards married to Tho-
mas Earl of Pomfret. Lord Jefferies died May 9th, 1703,
and his widow remarried with Thomas Viscount Windsor in
Ireland, Baron Mountjoy in England.
* The manor of Oatlands in Surrey had belonged to the
Crown from the time of Henry the Eighth. On the Resto-
ration it was given to the Queen Dowager, Henrietta Maria,
who granted a beneficial lease of it to her supposed lover,
Jermyn, Earl of St. Albans. In 1688, Sir Edward Herbert
purchased the lease of Lord St. Albans. Upon this, James,
to reward Sir Edward for his compliances with the wishes of
the Court, granted to the Chief Justice an additional lease of
seventy-six years. As Sir Edward followed the fortunes of
James on his abdication, his interest in the manor of Oat-
lands became forfeited, and was granted by William III. to his
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King's palaces, where his Lordship is building
of a house, though Mr. Daniel Sheldon hath a
lease and term of years in the place, and was
the person that first introduced his Lordship
into the air and knowledge of the said place.
His Lordship in his charge to the Jury at
Aylesbury said, the King will call a Parliament
in November at farthest, and recommended
to them the choice of such members as would
comply with the King in repealing the penal
laws and the Tests.
The Bishops that were lately in the Tower,
are gone to their respective Bishopricks, and
have resolved to hold frequent catechisings and
confirmations; and last week the Archbishop
began at Lambeth, and at Croydon, in Surry,
where the Bishop of Gloucester assisted him in
confirming several thousands of children, that
were brought to them.
This good example is followed also by the
brother, Arthur Herbert, the Admiral, whom he also created
Earl of Torrington. In 1696, William granted the fee simple
of this manor to the said Earl.
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Roman Clergy about the town; and last week,
Bishop Ellis, assisted by Father Poulton the
Jesuit, confirmed some hundreds of youth
(some of them were new converts) at the New
Chapel in the Savoy.
Sir John Narborough is confidently report-
ed to have died on the 27th of May,* and the
loss of him much regretted, not only by those
concerned with him in the silver fishing, but
by all that knew him to be an honest man, an
able seaman, and an useful subject. Some will
have the advice of his death not to be positive;
others again just now assure me, that a ship is
newly arrived with his body.
The Bishop of Durham† is still indisposed,
and has suspended several of his clergy, parti-
cularly Dr. Morton, his chaplain, for not read-
ing the Declaration. The Bishop of Chester‡
is said to intend the same thing in his diocese,
*This report turned out to be true. King James forth-
with created his eldest son John a Baronet, as an acknow-
ledgment of his father's merits.
+ Crewe, Bishop of Durham.
Cartwright, Bishop of Chester.
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and especially at Chester, where the Dean is
affirmed to have once promised the reading,
and then to have lien sick a-bed when the day
came, so that it was not read in the Cathedral.
His Majesty returned yesterday at noon
from the Buoy in the Nore, where he spent a
whole day in viewing his squadron of ships,
and is said to have given orders for the equip-
ing of ten more.
The Archbishop and the Clergy of London
are said to have had several conferences with
the chief of the Dissenting ministers, in order
to agree such points of ceremonies as are in-
different between them, and to take their mea-
sures for what is to be proposed about reli-
gion at next Parliament.
•O
Our foreign news is inconsiderable; only
that the Germans still pick up the remaining
places in Hungary. The Turks are said to
have abandoned Illock and Peterwaradin, steal-
ing away in the night.
The Emperor's council begin to think of
peace, and the major part are averred to be for
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it, and some are for the war, and these are such
as find their interest in it. The demolishing of
Belgrade is said to be one point the Emperor
would have, and the Turks will hardly grant.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland at Dublin.
SIR,
Dublin.
CLIII.
Turkish news.-Death of the Duke of Ormonde.-Rumours
from France.-Duke of Albemarle.
London, July 24th, 1688.
WE cannot hear that the French fleet
have taken right measures in making up their
bombs, which do but little execution there
this campaign; the Turks seeming to slight
their fury, with which they are now so well
acquainted.
Some letters by way of France say, that a
new flame of confusion is broke out in Turkey,
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and that, as it is thought, by the instigation of
Yeghen Bassa, who, to be revenged on the
Grand Seignior and his Ministers for declaring
him rebel, hath corrupted most of the Bassas
in Europe, and drawn them on his side to
declare for a free government, which they in-
tend to devise and canton among themselves;
and the scheme is said to be so deeply laid,
that the Sultan thought of scampering into
Asia, but this may seem too considerable to
be true; but if the heads of the army once
combine, this and more may be brought about,
besides that some of them may be better con-
tented to pursue the war and their own inte-
rest, than be laid aside and lose the sweet
opportunity of plunder by a peace.
On Friday last died the greatest man and
best of subjects, the Duke of Ormond, who
hath had the honour to outdo all the subjects
in Europe, by his gallant actions and constant
loyalty and integrity to his Prince for above
fifty years together. He died in Dorsetshire,
but, it is thought, will be buried in Westminster
VOL. II.
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Abbey. His Garter will likely be given to
the Duke of Barwick, and his place of Lord
Steward of the Household* to the Marquis of
Powis, though it be not yet declared.
The French King is said to be inviting back
his subjects from all parts, especially the handi-
craft part of them, whose departure is said to
have much prejudiced his revenue, and pro-
miseth them his toleration; though it doth not
appear they are forward to believe that an or-
der of Council can preserve what the Edict of
Nantes could not.
The French give out they will meddle no
more in the matters of Cologne, but suffer it
to take its fate; if so, the French troops will
be recalled, and the Cardinal must pack away
to his own Bishopric of Strasburgh, which, with
his life, he owes to France. We may very
soon hear what the success will be at Liege
and Munster.
It does not appear that any Lord Steward of the House-
hold was appointed till after the Revolution, when William
gave the place to Lord Devonshire.
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Amongst other competitors for Mr. Sheri-
dan's place, are named Mr. Hales, Mr. Knight-
ly, and Mr. Trinder. Mr. Dickenson, one of
the Commissioners in Ireland, would have ex-
cused his going back into that kingdom, but
we hear that his Majesty thought fit to over-
rule him.
-
What is reported of the Duke of Albe-
marle's death, we hope, is a mistake. The heart
of Sir John Narborough is brought over and
delivered to his relations: his widow is said to
be worth 80,000l. Mr. Wm. Constable, who
was supercargo on board him, is also arrived,
and says there are not above 12007. fished up
this last expedition; that about 500,000l. have
been taken up in all; that there is much more
behind, and that they have left a guard there
upon the wreck, in order to begin betimes
next season.
The church of Wrexham, in Wales, was
lately robbed, and all the plate and linen taken
away.
The King and Queen move to Windsor this
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day, and the Princess to Tunbridge.
Prince of Wales goes on Friday to Richmond:
the issue made in his shoulder is dried up by
the advice of chirurgeons.
A whale of vast bulk being said to be ham-
pered in a creek near Malden, in Essex, doth
occasion great resort thither.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
SIR,
At Dublin.
CLIV.
The Court at Windsor.-Affairs of Cologne.-A Priest
insulted, &c.
London, July 26th, 1688.
ON Tuesday, their Majesties went for
Windsor, and to-morrow the Prince of Wales
is to remove for Richmond. His Royal High-
ness goes abroad in the Park every day to take
the air.
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What our last told you of the new disorders
at Constantinople, seems to be confirmed from
all parts. The rabble are drawn in to join with
the mutinous part of the army, and all seem to
despise the Grand Signior; so far, that he can-
not think himself safe where he is, and so me-
ditateth a retreat into Asia. The plague is said
to be increased also, which adds to the misery
and despair of that Government.
The most Christian King is said to have writ
a civil letter to the Pope in behalf of Cardinal
Furstemberg, to demand his justice, for much
favour cannot be expected in his case; and that
King begins to lay to the Pope's charge any
war or misery that shall befall Christendom
upon the account of that election. In the
mean time the new electors protest against each
other; and some would be glad of a composi-
tion in the matter, and please both, by giving
the Electorship to the Cardinal, and the Coad-
jutorship to the Prince of Bavaria.
Algiers begins now to be sensible of the
French bombs, the best part of their town being
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beaten down and reduced to ruins; yet the
Turks bear it with great vigour and resolution,
and continue to shoot off Frenchmen in return
of their bombs.
Colonel Molesworth* is returned from Ja-
maica, together with Mr. Constable. The
Duke of Albemarle hath sent complaints
against the first; but he hopes to justify him-
self, and to lay the fault elsewhere.
Six thousand Piedmontese are said to have
got together in arms, and to have cut the
throats of most of those officers and soldiers
that were posted in their countries by the
Duke of Savoy's command.
The French Court hath lately created a new
tribunal, to inquire into the bribery and cor-
ruption of their judges.
* Hender Molesworth, Esq. created a Baronet by King
William in 1689. He had been President of the island of
Jamaica during the reign of Charles the Second, and subse-
quently Lieutenant-governor of the same, till the arrival of
the Duke of Albemarle. Upon the death of the Duke of
Albemarle there in the beginning of 1689, he was constituted
Governor of the Island.
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What is said by some newsmongers about
the town, of four soldiers having shot at Father
Peters in the camp, is false, no such indignity
having been offered to any of the fathers;
only one of the King's priests happened to be
riding by, eight miles from the camp, as two
soldiers were a-drinking the King's health, and
out of gaiety discharged their muskets; and
this was found to be the fact upon examination
at a Council of War.
We have every month some new relation
from the East Indies. Now they tell us, how
the great Mogul hath beheaded the King of
Golconda, and lately how the English had beat
the Mogul. But all these tidings may possibly
be interpreted some of the shams and amuse-
ments of a body of men trading into those
parts; they may well seem to require better
authority.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
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SIR,
CLV.
New Bishop of Oxford, &c.
28th July, 1688.
MR. Trinder, who is made one of your
Commissioners, is a very fair-conditioned gen-
tleman: his zeal in his way will be no part of
his business at your Board.
One Mr. Hall,* Rector of Allhallows Stay-
ning, always a moderate man, and now parti-
cularly meritorious for having read the Decla-
ration, is made Bishop of Oxon. Other re-
moves in the Church from Chester to York,
&c. are talked of, but spread about by those
that wish them.
The Prince removed yesterday to Richmond.
* Timothy Hall, Bishop of Oxford. Besides his living of
Allhallows, he was also Rector of Horsington in Buckingham-
shire. Burnet gives the following account of his elevation :
"One Hall, a Conformist in London, who was looked on as
half a Presbyterian, yet, because he read the Declaration,
was made Bishop of Oxford." He succeeded Parker, who
was just dead.
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All here quiet, barren of all news and ordi-
nary conversation. I hope Spence tells you
more.
Pray send me a copy of the order for stop-
ping of lambskins: I shall only use the date
of it.
(No address on this letter.)
SIR,
CLVI.
Foreign news.-Changes in the Church.-Dukes of Ormonde.
-Duchess of Portsmouth gone to France.
London, July 28th, 1688.
WE hear no farther account from Co-
logne, all parties seeming to acquiesce with
great resignation till the Pope shall give his
decision in the case, either by confirming the
postulation of the Cardinal, or the election of
Prince Clement. In the mean time, as nothing
is more uneasy to the Cardinal than to be
quiet, so he is marching and cross-marching his
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troops about the Electorate, that he may not
be unprovided, in case the point cannot be de-
cided without blows.
One Prebeck, prebend of that church, is
chosen Bishop of Hildesheime, and is a person
so beloved in his neighbourhood, that he may
go near to be put up for some other of the new
vacant bishopricks.
The Imperial Army is said to be entered into
Sclavonia, and thence they seem resolved to
pass over the Save, and to go and attack Bel-
grade, where some report all to be in a disor-
derly condition, and scarce an enemy will be
found. Others think that the Turks would
decoy the Germans over the river, and then
spend what vigour they have in cutting off
their retreat; so that many wish the Emperor
may not too late repent the desire of extending
his dominions beyond what was once hoped
for, and beyond those bounds which they fancy
God and Nature seem to have given to his
Empire.
We do not find that Yeghen Pacha has yet
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made his peace, since the confusions are said
to be broke out anew at Constantinople, and
that by his instigation; and on this side he and
the Pacha of Belgrade exercise their cruelties,
by reprisals upon each other's adherents, the one
having lately sent a compliment to the other
with a hundred heads of his friends, which the
other returned in the like bloody number and
manner.
Great disputes there are at Vienna, whether
Monsieur de Villars,* the French Ambassa-
dor, ought to be suffered to follow the Duke
of Bavaria into the field, or no, most being
against it.
The Elector of Brandeburgh has refused to
renew his treaties with the States-General till
they give him some satisfaction for two places
He pos-
* Lewis Claude Duke de Villars, one of the most conspi-
cuous of the generals of Lewis the Fourteenth. He
sessed considerable talents, and at least an equal share of
vanity and fanfaronade. He was made a Marshal. in 1702,
and President of the Council of War in 1718. He died in
1734.
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or forts which they detain from him in Africa
upon the coast of Guinea.
One Mr. Hall, Rector of Allhallows in the
city of London, being one of the clergymen
that read the Declaration, and said to be most
deserving of the four, is made Bishop of Ox-
ford, and the Congé d'élire is gone down.
We talk of other changes in the Church, as
if the Bishop of Chester were to be translated
to the Archbishopric of York, and his Dean to
succeed him, but this is not declared.
Sir Humphrey Edwynne, late Treasurer of
the East India Company, and one Johnson of
Mile-end Green, are named to succeed as She-
riffs of the City of London for the next year.
We are told the University of Oxford have
elected the young Duke of Ormond* to be
their Chancellor, but that his Grace is not will-
ing to accept of it, since his Majesty had re-
commended another of eminent place and qua-
* James second Duke of Ormonde. The University
abided by its choice, and the Duke eventually became the
Chancellor of it.
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lity, viz. the Lord Chancellor. The Convoca-
tion was divided in their choice, for some were
for the Lord Halifax, and others for the Earl
of Nottingham,* and a third party for the Earl
of Abingdon.†
*Daniel (Finch) second Earl of Nottingham, and towards
the latter end of his life, sixth Earl of Winchilsea. He
played a considerable part in the political history of this
country, and was at different times of his life Secretary of
State, President of the Council, and one of the Lords Justices
for administering the affairs of the kingdom on the accession
of George the First, and till that monarch's arrival in England.
"The Earl of Nottingham had great credit with the whole
church party, for he was a man possessed with their notions,
and was grave and virtuous in the course of his life. He had
some knowledge of the law, and of the records of Parliament,
and was a copious speaker, but too florid and tedious." The
tediousness and gravity of his harangues, united with a dark
and rueful countenance, had obtained for him, among his con-
temporaries, the appellation of “Old Dismal.” He died
January 1st, 1730.
+ James (Bertie) Lord Norreys of Rycote, created Earl of
Abingdon in 1682. This nobleman was one of those persons
who concurred heartily in the Revolution, till it was found
to be the intention that the Prince of Orange should be de-
clared King, which their conscientious scruples obliged them
to oppose. He died in 1699, leaving behind him a family
consisting of six sons and three daughters.
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The Duke of Ormond died, they say, upon
the same day with the Duchess,* and foretold
he himself should die that day, and has cau-
tioned the young Duke to have a care of it
likewise.
We do not hear his Majesty does this year
intend any progress either Northward or West-
ward, otherwise than to Portsmouth.
Last night the Duchess of Portsmouth went
down the River, in order to embark for France.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
* Lady Elizabeth Preston, only child of Preston Earl of
Desmond, married to the Duke of Ormonde, then Lord
Thurles, in 1629. By this marriage the Duke became again
possessed of his paternal estate, which had been wrested from
the family by an unjust decision of James the First, in favour
of his favourite, Lord Desmond. The Duchess of Ormonde
died July 21st, 1684; the Duke, July 21st, 1688.
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CLVII.
Duke of Ormonde.-Prince of Wales ill and weakly.
London, July 31st, 1688.
DEAR SIR,
YOURS of the 20th I had yesterday. I
had had a long ramble then, and since another,
but much shorter, for I returned but on Sun-
day night from Cassiobury, my Lady Essex's,*
where I spend much of my idle time since my
Lord Morpeth (Earl Carlisle's son) married
her thirteen years old daughter, the Lady Ann.
He goes to travel shortly, and if I can settle
matters so as to be able to go with him, I will,
for clouds rise here thick, and hopes grow less
and less of preferment for those that will not
leap the hedge as well as the ditch.
Our young Duke of Ormonde, with his bro-
ther the Marquis of Wo'ster,† went towards
1.
* Elizabeth (Percy) daughter of Algernon Earl of Nor-
thumberland. She was at this time the widow of Arthur
first Earl of Essex.
+ Charles (Somerset) Marquis of Worcester, brother-in-law
of the second Duke of Ormonde.
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Kingston-hall this morning, and thence design
for Badminton, and yet return hither by Sa-
turday. I reckon you will have the particulars
of the good old gentleman's end; that it would
prove a superfluous work for me to go about.
He was sensible to the last, but I think, though
he did not expect to live the day out, yet when
death came upon him, he rather thought it was
sleep, for he bade La-roche turn him, saying he
was drowsy, and instantly died. He made the
young Duke sole executor, and hath left little
from him. He hath the Chancellorship of Oxon.
by election, which the King seems to be well
content with, because they chose him; for
otherwise he would have pulled a crow with
them for not acquainting him before they pro-
ceeded to election, as was customary. The
mandamus went for Lord Chancellor to be
their's, but came two hours too late.* The King
* Upon this occasion the Vice-Chancellor (Gilbert Ironside,
Warden of Wadham College,) wrote the following base and
servile letter to the infamous Jefferies:-
"My Lord, I take this University, specially myself, to
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received the young Duke 'kindly, took the
George and put it in his pocket. The world
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be at this time extremely unhappy in reference to his Ma-
jesty and your Lordship. His Majesty's displeasure, next to
that of God's, I am sure this loyal University knows it to be
their duty never to do any thing to deserve; and will be
always very careful of any neglect to your Lordship, of whose
good-will and favour to us we have had so much experience."
My Lord, his Majesty expressed a fatherly care to us in
recommending your Lordship to be our Chancellor,† and your
Lordship was the most desirable person in the world. But
as we had no notice of your Lordship's inclinations, or that
you would accept of that office; so, on the other hand, my
late Lord Duke of Ormond's obligations to this place were so
many and so great, and our presumptions that his son would
stand up in his father's room were so reasonable, that the
consideration of it made a speedy way for the election of his
Lordship. As for the suddenness of our election, on Sunday,
at two o'clock, I had an express of my Lord Duke's death,
and I am peremptorily commanded by our statutes to proceed
to a new election quam primum commode fieri poterit: ac-
cordingly I called a Convocation on Monday morning, in
which my Lord Duke that now is, was chosen by one hun-
dred and eighty voices. His Majesty's mandate did not come
to me till yesterday in the afternoon."
"I humbly beseech your Lordship to take this true ac-
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+ This recommendation came in the form of a mandate
signed by Lord Middleton as Secretary of State, directing
the University to elect Jefferies their Chancellor.
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says the Duke of Berwick will have it; but I
am confident it is to be a sort of rod over the
young gentleman's head, and his merit in next
Parliament shall get or lose it.
The camp
breaks up in a few days, in order to get to
their winter quarters before the writs come out,
which I think will be speedily; and the King
designs a session in November, but I think
some of the Ministers are not of his mind.
The representation of our friend the Lord is
false. My Prior will not hold it, for he is in
a deep consumption. I know not where to
shift my hand, for there is no pleading with-
out counsel in any court.
I have my eye
upon one that has a towardly good will for me,
and I hope he may make up in assurance, what
he comes short of the other in understanding.
The young Prince lives on, but is a weakly
account of our affairs as an excuse for us, and according to the
great goodness of your nature and good-will to this place, to
offer it to his Majesty; to whose service, notwithstanding
any sinister suggestions to the contrary, we are, and will be
always entirely devoted. I am, &c."
"For my Lord Chancellor of England."
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infant, at Richmond. P. and Pss. of Denmark
at Tunbridge. If the Queen go to the Bath, it
will be the latter end of next month; and the
King's progresses will be but to Portsmouth,
or such a step. We talk of a Dictator's power
given to the Prince of Orange in Holland for
a year. I cannot compass what you desire
to-night. My service to our friend Mr. H.
Temple.
Yours, J. F.
Mr. Gascoigne is Secretary to the present
Duke. What servants he wants, he will take
from his grandfather's family. I think J.
Clarke will not be of the number.
Trinder, an active Justice of Peace here, is
likeliest to succeed Mr. Sheridan in your Com-
mission. I wish the Bishop* would spur up
for you. I will move again, as I always do,
when I see him.
It is thought Bishop Chester will be Arch-
bishop York;† Ardern, Dean of Chester, Bi-
* Philip Ellis.
+ Lamplugh was made Archbishop of York.
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shop there; and Lord Powis have the Lord
Stewardship of King's Household.
The titular honour of Steward of Westmin-
ster, Winchester, and Charter-house, I think
will fall to the young Duke's* share.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary of His
Majesty's Revenue in Ireland.
Ireland.
At Dublin.
SIR,
CLVIII.
Promotions and Appointments.-Movements of the Court.--
Foreign news of various kinds.
London, July 31st, 1688.
THE instruments of making Mr. Hall
Bishop of Oxford, are passing the Seals, but
there is no Declaration of the King's pleasure
yet come about removing the Bishop of Ches-
ter to York, which he, no doubt, endeavoured
all he can for; that thereby his Dean would be
made Bishop, to make room for his son to be
* Of Ormonde.
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Dean, who is lately married with the bastard
daughter of a certain Peer.*
We do not hear that the state of the Lord
Steward of his Majesty's Household is yet
given to any body. The Lord Powis and
Dover are much talked of. The Dean and
Chapter of Westminster have chosen the Duke
of Ormond for their Lord High Steward; he
had eight voices in twelve: others were put up
in nomination, of high quality, as Lord Chan-
cellor, Lord President,† Lord Chamberlain,‡ &c.
That the Queen will go to the Bath this
summer, and the King upon a progress to the
North, seems to be no more talked of. The
Queen Dowager§ begins to be weary of the
town, and would have a good country-house to
pass some part of the summer in; her Majesty
is said to have a mind to go to Chatsworth, the
Earl of Devon's, or else will lay out a sum to
build her one of her own.
* I cannot discover, nor is it of much importance, what
Peer's natural daughter married Bishop Cartwright's son.
Lord Mulgrave.
+ Lord Sunderland.
§ Catherine of Portugal.
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Some days ago, as his Majesty was drawing
out all the horse now encamped, a certain per-
son unknown (as yet) rode up to his Majesty,
letting him know he had something to say of
great moment, and the King making towards
him, the gentleman lighted off his horse, and
being booted, fell down and broke his leg.
Here is now a discourse, that the Train
Bands will be put up again, and that the Lieu-
tenancy is already appointed.
The Duchess of Mazarine, the Duchess of
Bouillon, her sister, and the Duchess of Cleve-
land, went down the River on board an East
Indiaman, and were, it seems, so well satisfied
with their fare and entertainment, that their
Graces stayed two or three days.
There is a good prospect of a happy cam-
paign for the Christians; the Emperor had had
several good hits already, and not one of the
least is the meeting with several waggons of
*
* This seems, from the length of its duration, to have been
rather a singular expedition, though not the least out of
character for the heroines who undertook it.
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money, most in French louis-d'ors, which was
pretended to be designed to the French Am-
bassador in Poland, though others think they
were for Count Tekely, since gold is the only
guard and safety now left him.
The Prince of Poland* was led on so far by
his love as to pass some days incognito at Ber-
lin, where he had frequent views of the Prin-
cess Radzivil. He was observed to be conver-
*This was the Prince James Lewis Sobieski, eldest son
of the heroic John Sobieski, King of Poland. There is fre-
quent mention of him made in the letters of John Sobieski to
his wife Mary de la Grange d'Arquien, written during the
celebrated campaign of Vienna in 1683. In that corre-
spondence he is called "Fanfan," a name of endearment. He
appears to have been a man of great bravery, but without
much talent. He was born at Paris, Nov. 2d, 1667, and died
December 19th, 1734, and with him extinguished the male
line of this illustrious family. One of his daughters, Maria
Clementina, was the wife of the Old Pretender.
† At the age of twenty, James Lewis was upon the point
of marrying a Princess of Radzivil, the widow of a Prince
of Brandenburg. All was prepared for this union; the young
Sobieski set off for Berlin in order to conclude it.; but the
Princess was already secretly married to a Prince of Neu-
burg. The King of Poland, irritated with this affront, de-
manded a public and signal reparation from the Elector of
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sant with some Frenchmen, and being not
known till he was gone, the French Secretary
and a French colonel were commanded by the
Elector to depart his dominions in twenty-four
hours.
One Plettenburg, the Dean, being chosen
Bishop of Munster, it will be a disappointment
to the Empress, who stickled hard for the Bi-
shop of Breslaw, her brother.
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We hear from Genoa, that all the Ecclesias-
tics exhort to penitence, from an old prophecy
that foretells they were to expect the same fate
with Naples. The ladies are already stript of
all their silks and vanities by orders, and per-
suaded to do acts of mortification barefooted;
and their very cast clothes will, they say,
amount to a considerable revenue.
Brandenburgh; but all these threats ended in vain words.
It was even at length agreed that James Sobieski should
marry the sister of his rival, which event took place at War-
saw in 1691.
"He became allied by this union to the first
Catholic reigning families; the sisters of the Princess of
Neuburg being married to the Emperor, the Kings of Por-
tugal and Spain, and the Duke of Parma."-Biographie
Universelle.
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We expect to hear that the German army is
approached to Belgrade: it is yet uncertain
what the condition of that place is, and whe-
ther the Yeghen Pacha be there. He had
gone near to revolt, if the Grand Vizier had
not smoothed him up. Yet nothing can bear
up the courage of the Turks in general, who
have also got an old prophecy by the end, that
about this time the Turkish Empire must be
ruined by the Franks, which name they called
the European Christians by: and that makes
each Pacha and each Bey willing to secure
what he hath, and to get what he can, so that
the Turkish army seemed rather inclined to
pillage and to plunder than to fight.
The Elector of Bavaria went on the 10th
to the army, and the Duke of Lorrain is so
well that he intends to follow him.
The Germans had the good luck to intercept
a convoy, going to Great Waradin, of 800 oxen
and 4000 sheep, which will further the sur-
rendry of that place. The Prince of Walachia
hath also at last shaken off his dependence
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upon the Turks, and given himself over to
the Emperor, and is to pay 100,000 crowns
yearly, and is to have his male children to suc-
ceed him, and to be provided for in the peace
as one of the other Allies.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
At Dublin.
Ireland,
SIR,
CLIX.
Details respecting the Death of the Duke of Ormonde.
Kingston Hall, 31st July, 1688.
BEING here to pay my last respects to
the hearse of so great a patron, and knowing
the concern you will have herein, I cannot but
in a few words tell you what has passed. His
Grace went out on Wednesday the 18th for
half a dozen miles with my Lady Ossory in
the coach, but returned ill. However, he was
the two next days a little about the house, till
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on Friday evening he was taken with a stitch :
the doctor came next morning to do what
he could; but when Mr. Clarke entered the
room before him, my Lord said, "James, this
day four years was a sad day for me by the
loss of my wife." After this, being at some
ease with the stitch, he talked of all indifferent
things, and took pleasure to see the child play
before him. He got up at ten. Morning
prayers of the family, and the same at three
in the afternoon, when he answered clear and
as loud as he was wont, and he joked pleasantly
at sitting up, that his legs were more easy and
plying than since his first illness, which yet
doubtless was no other than the creeping up
of the humour unto the vital parts. While he
was at prayers he showed tokens in his face of
being in pain, though he would not groan or
complain. He appointed his chaplain to have
the sacrament ready for him next morning at
ten of the clock, and said that such and such
should receive it with him. But desiring to go
back to his bed for some refreshment, James
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Clarke, observing that he declined apace, came
to him at four, and asked if his Grace would
please to receive the sacrament now.
He an-
swered quick and cheerfully,
Ay, with all
my heart." So the Earl of Ossory with his
lady and others joined with him therein, and
his Grace took it with exemplary devotion.
In half an hour after, he called to be turned
on his side to try if he could go to rest; but
when the servant came, he found him dying,
and in six minutes, without a groan or the
least struggling, he was dead. In this he
had his constant wish of not outliving his in-
tellectuals.
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In April last he made a short will, appoint-
ing his grandson executor; he gave a few le-
gacies to some servants, and appointed to be
buried with his wife and two sons, and as pri-
vately as she was.
This is the short of what we now talk of.
His present Grace went on Monday last to
wait on the King, and is not yet returned. By
Saturday we think the body will be in the
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grave. My Lady will go directly hence to
Badminton, and thither I attend her, and so
home, being always,
Sir,
Your most affectionate friend
and hum ble servant,
Mr. John Ellis.
SIR,
ROBERT SOUTHWELL.
CLX.
Turkish news. Various rumours.-Duke of Albemarle.
London, Aug. 2d, 1688.
LETTERS from Constantinople of the
10th of June import that the plague there is
much augmented; and that it not only very
much incommoded that great city, but also that
of Pera, and other neighbouring places; that
the Christians withdrew thence, and though
the religion of the Turks do obstinately wed
them to predestination, a great number have
made their escape into Asia, as also the Grand
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Seignior. Some say it is to avoid the flail of
pestilence; others say it to be through the fear
they are in of the revolted troops: nay, some
will need affirm, that the Ottoman Empire was
reduced to the bare city of Constantinople; that
all the Pachas are revolted; that the Grand
Seignior himself was fled into Asia; and that
nothing reigned there but disorder and confu-
sion. But as our accounts thence still vary,
other advices tell us that the new Grand Vi-
C
zier's* ministry had not been disturbed by any
new revolt; that by the prudence and vigour of
his administration, he had reduced the greatest
part of the mutineers to some state of submis-
sion and discipline; but at the same time con-
firm to us the Candian revolt, and massacre of
their commanders, as also a deputation from the
* Mustapha Coprogli, the son of Achmet Coprogli, and
grandson of Mahomet Coprogli, successively Grand Viziers,
and two of the most admirable ministers in Turkish history.
Mustapha was also a man of transcendant merit, perhaps
even superior to his progenitors. He was killed at the bat-
tle of Salenkemen, which he had just gained against the
Prince Lewis of Baden.
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Divan of Egypt, with complaints against their
Pacha's conduct, whom they accuse of espous-
ing Mahomet the Fourth's interests, and of
using secret practices to fix a powerful party to
restore him, or place one of his sons upon the
throne; that as the projects for raising money
had not the hoped-for success, so neither the
army nor the fleet were in any reasonable pos-
ture; that, nevertheless, the Grand Seignior
was hardly in any wise discomposed by all these
distresses; that he was most taken up with
the study of his law, leaving the management
of affairs to his ministers; that he had been
with several women, and that there was a re-
port of three of them being with child, which
is expected will dishearten Mahomet and his
children's partizans, who are still under strict
confinement; that the Ottoman Embassy to
the Court of Persia had been fruitless, though
* Mahomet the Fourth was a weak and effeminate prince.
He had been deposed on the 9th of November, 1687, when
his brother, Soliman the Third, succeeded him. Soliman
was indolent, superstitious, and almost imbecile. He died
in 1691, just as measures were taking for deposing him.
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the design of it was to engage the Sophy to fall
upon the Muscovites, to make a diversion.
The Persians are said indeed to have promised
an irruption, but would not oblige themselves
to it by any treaty.
We hear that the French before Algiers
have shot 10,420 bombs into that place, that
have reduced it to that condition, that the
ruins of houses have stopped up all the streets;
after which the French fleet is returned to
Toulon, leaving only a number of ships to hin-
der the going in or out of those pirates.*
Great preparations are making on all hands
for the meeting of the Parliament, and both
Houses are said to be fitting up and beautify-
ing for that purpose.
Colonel John Miller, eldest Captain of the
Lord Craven's regiment, riding from the camp
on Monday evening, is said by a fall from his
horse to have lost his life.
* This expedition against Algiers had been conducted by
the Marshal d'Estrées-who had bombarded the town in the
manner described in this letter, on the 1st of July 1688.
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A cherry-garden having, tempted some sol-
diers into transgression, they were seized by
the Provost and his men; but some of their
comrades offering at a rescue, were likewise
taken up and punished.
Four fires have been within these three days;
the last, in Catherine-street, on Tuesday, being
the most considerable. It burnt down the
Fleece Tavern, with some adjoining houses,
and is said to have been occasioned by the
carelessness of a workman, leaving his glue-
pot on the fire while he went to dinner, and
which fired the shavings; but what offers mat-
ter of discourse is, that a certain vintner, in
disguise of a porter, coming to the assistance
of the neighbourhood, conveyed away one hun-
dred pounds to his own use, for which he is
said to have been apprehended, and committed
to the Gate-house.
A resort hath been this day or two to Tot-
nam Court,* upon a silly rumour of an appa-
* Tottenham Court was a small estate and manor, close to
London, which was at this time in the possession of the Du-
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rition, and upon the finding in a pond parts
of human bodies in barrels ; but indeed it seems
no more than a contrivance to get money.
Some difference is said to have arisen at
Chatham between two Commanders of the
navy, and that it hath occasioned their being
both suspended, till his Majesty be fully in-
formed of the matter.
Two ships being arrived from Bermudas,
and supposed to have store of wreck-money on
board, the King's broad arrow is said to be set
upon them till such time as that they are
brought to account. More ships are averred
to be a money-fishing, but not without having
first given the Duke of Albemarle security to
render him a fair account and moiety of their
prizes. The Prince of Wales having been
somewhat indisposed at Richmond, occasioned
a visit thither from their Majesties, and some
chess of Grafton, as heiress of Bennet Lord Arlington. From
her it descended to the second Duke of Grafton, her son; and
now belongs to the Lords Southampton, the first of whom
was a younger son of that family.
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stay.
Orders are given for the embellishing
the Princess of Denmark's Chapel in White-
hall; and as the work will be begun this week,
it will be finished by the Court's return. Sir
Richard Mason at Worster Park near Epsome,
hath married his daughter to one Mr. Brown-
low of the Temple; the lady having 16007.
portion, and the gentleman giving 3007. a-year
pin-money, and 2000l. a-year jointure.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
CLXI.
4th August, 1688
THE Prince hath been these ten days
somewhat sick with the gripings, and put us
into frequent alarms, but we hope all danger is
passed. Last night happened an unlucky ac-
cident at Woolwich, where two men were a
preparing some bombs, and happened to knock
in the fuse with an iron hammer, which gave
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fire, and fired about 48 in all, besides some
barrels of powder, dashed the work men in
pieces, and made a terrible fracas, and shattered,
some say four, others more houses in the town.
Our camp breaks up next week. The white
staff or garter are not yet disposed of. I can-
not tell you any thing certain of a Parliament;
some think it may be off again. Pray give
Mr. Smith your help in procuring me 4l. 5s.
from a captain in that kingdom.
Mr. Ellis.
SIR,
CLXII.
Judge Rotherham.-News foreign and domestic.-Prince of
Wales recovered.
London, August 4th, 1688.
WE have an account from several of the
circuits, that the Judges are received in most
places without any great pomp or numbers,
and that at Berks and Oxford particularly,
only the High Sheriff and his sons met them
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that both heard the sermon at St. Mary's, but
that Judge Rothram* went afterwards to a
private exercise of his own, where one Father
Burgess, a well-gifted man, held forth before
him, as he had done at Reading, where he told
them the duty of Judges and Juries, especially
at this conjuncture. The Judge accordingly
gave his charge to the Jury, in which he much
magnified the favour of the King's toleration,
and inveighed as briskly against the Church of
England and its clergy, who discover, he said,
now the spirit of persecution, as much as others
had done formerly, in matters of religion. He
commended the law of the Lacedæmonians,
which enjoins every man that imposes a new
law, to try it first in his own family, and would
have the Church of England do the same;
then he fell upon the debaucheries of the
clergy, how they run after vice, and in the
midst of their laziness eat up the fat of the
land; then he ripped up their stiffness and
Serjeant Rotherham had just been made a Judge, for
what reason is here evident.
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disobedience, and instanced the late Bishops'
petition, which he said was a libel, and he
would be able to prove it so, if not more, for
it tended to barr the prerogative, and alter the
Government, which is treason; and it is said
the Grand Jury, who were gentlemen of sub-
stance, and most of them Catholics, presented
their Abhorrence of the said petition.
A warrant is granted out against the Earl
of Denbigh's brother* and two other gentle-
men, who are said to have rescued a fellow
who had done some affront to Obadiah Walker
of Oxford.
It is reported as if the deprived Fellows of
Magdalen College intend to try their titles next
term in Westminster Hall.
*William Fielding, only brother of Basil fourth Earl of
Denbigh. He was at this time, it is presumed, an under-
graduate at the University of Oxford. He married Lady
Diana Newport, daughter to Francis Earl of Bradford, and
widow of Thomas Howard, of Ashted in Surrey, Esq., and
died September 21st, 1723. In 1716, he was constituted one
of the Clerks Comptrollers of the Green Cloth.
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We hear no more of a Parliament, though
the Lords-Lieutenants are repaired into their
counties, but no orders are yet given for the
writs, though several fops write they will be
issued out very speedily with a blank date.
The Earl of Maxfeild* hath not yet his
par-
don. Barnadiston is already come from Hol-
land, and made his peace by an easy compo-
sition, by the means of a noble Catholic Lord.
Sir Josiah Child † is preparing a Relation of
*Gerard Earl of Macclesfield.
+ Sir Josiah Child, the eminent merchant, and ancestor of
the Earls Tylney. He was now engaged in speculations in
the East Indies. Evelyn gives the following account of his
wealth and origin.
"March 16th, 1683, I went to see Sir Josiah Child's pro-
digious cost in planting walnut-trees about his seate (Wan-
stead), and making fish-ponds, many miles in circuit, in Ep-
ping Forest, in a barren spot, as oftentimes these suddainly
monied men seate themselves. He, from a merchant's appren-
tice, and management of the East India Company's stock,
being arrived (it is said) to an estate of 200,000l. He lately
married his daughter to the eldest son of the Duke of Beau-
fort, late Marquis of Worcester, with 50,000l. portion at pre-
sent, and various expectations." Burnet draws his character
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his late successes against the Great Mogoll, yet
it is thought his rhetoric will scarce longer gain
belief. Since our Directions fall to the lowest
ebb, and that we have but one ship come, and
that not rich laden, whereas the Dutch have
eleven in the country, without any shamming,
Relations would be better argument to prove
our good condition in those parts.
Captain Miller, in the Earl of Craven's re-
giment, mentioned in our last to fall from his
horse coming from the camp; and it being dark,
and his servant much in drink, he never re-
covered, but died the next day.
Some ships, as we also said in our last, are
come from the West Indies, and the officers of
thus-" This summer (of 1699) Sir Josiah Child died. He
was a man of great notions as to merchandise, which was his
education, and in which he succeeded beyond any man of his
time. He applied himself chiefly to the East India trade,
which by his management was raised so high, that it drew
much envy and jealousy both upon himself and upon the
Company. He had a compass of knowledge and apprehen-
sion, beyond any merchant I ever knew. He was vain and
covetous, and thought too cunning, though to me he seemed
always sincere."
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the Mint have been twice down the River to
receive the King's share. The proprietors in
Sir John Narborough's fishing will lose one-
half of what it cost them this last year.
The Prince of Wales's indisposition on Tues-
day last was occasioned by a great looseness,
but is well recovered again.
The Duchess of Portsmouth is again return-
ed into France, and great conjectures are made
at her sudden departure.
The Bishop of Durham is expected suddenly
in Court, to give his Majesty an account of
what suspensions he hath made in the North
for not reading the Declaration.
It is said the Duke of Modena* will have
the blue garter, void by the death of the Duke
of Ormond, which otherwise should have come
to the Duke of Berwick.
* Francis II. of Este, Duke of Modena, brother of the
Queen of James the Second. He did not succeed to the
Duke of Ormonde's blue ribbon. At this time there were
two cordons vacant, which were conferred, on the 28th of
September, on the Dukes of Ormonde and Berwick.
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The horse, and part of the foot, decamp
from Hounslow next Wednesday.
The German army is said to have found a
passage in the Save, which is good luck, and
will put them in a condition of surprising the
Turks at Belgrade.
They still discourse that the Great Turk is
much uneasy under the vexations of his Go-
vernment, though he dares not show it; and
having left all to the disposal of his Grand
Vizier, hath betaken himself to the study of
the law and to his women, whereof three are
already said to be big, to the great joy of his
confidents.
The Cardinal of Furstemberg is said to be
in disgrace in the Court of France, for having
suffered the King to be slurred in the business
of Cologne, by covetously pocketing most of
the lewis-d'ors allowed for that purpose.
There fell lately vast numbers of caterpillars
and other vermin in Languedoc, and other
places of France.
We hear no perfect account of the earth-
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quake at Rome, Madera, and Canaries, which,
if true, will make indulgences and sweet wines
very dear.
We hear just now from Woolwich, that some
bombs that were there preparing, having acci-
dentally taken fire, had done great mischief;
more of which with the certainty in our next.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
At Dublin.
Ireland,
SIR,
CLXIII.
Prince of Wales again ill.-Disaffection in the country.
Foreign news.
London, August 7th, 1688.
THEIR Majesties have passed three or
four days at Richmond with the Prince of
Wales, his Royal Highness having continued
indisposed by the gripes and looseness. Se-
ral consults of doctors, and midwives, and
nurses, have been had, and at last it was re-
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solved his Highness should have the breast ;
and a fresh countrywoman hard by was had on
Saturday, and he hath since sucked, and been
much better.
The Queen is resolved to continue with the
Prince at Richmond, till he be well and in a
condition to be removed to Windsor.
Councils and committees were put off at
Windsor by reason that the King was with the
Prince at Richmond.
The horse decamp next Wednesday, and are
to go into their several quarters and garrisons
in order to keep the peace and good order at
the approaching elections for Parliament, though
it be not yet certain that any directions are
given for the Parliament writs.
Mr. Bernard Howard* is said to have
brought two loyal addresses from Winchester,
both signed by himself and others. The Grand
Juries refused to pass an Abhorrence of the
* Bernard Howard was the eighth son of Henry Frederick,
Earl of Arundel, and of his wife, Elizabeth Stuart, daughter
of Esme Duke of Lennox. He was the direct ancestor of
the present Duke of Norfolk.
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Bishops' late petition, but were like to turn it
into a presentment of another nature; that is,
against such Roman Catholics as are in com-
missions of the peace, &c.
We have yet no certain account what the
answers of the Archdeacons, Chancellors, and
Commissaries, will be about reading the De-
claration. As the day of their return draws
nigh, so the town begins to be filled with
clergymen, who come to expect the Lords' de-
termination in the matter.
Great exceptions are taken by the several
counties against the Judges, who arraign the
Bishops in their charges at the circuit sessions,
after they have been fairly acquitted by a trial
and a verdict in the King's Bench.
Some of the Judges are said to have behaved
themselves lukewarmly in the matter, and to
have foreseen, at least forethought, of what
disservice to the Crown a general discontent
may prove to be; so that we may expect some
farther change in Westminster Hall the next
term.
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The Duke of Lorraine* is so well recovered,
that he takes the air in his calèche, and it is
observed that he is very uneasy since the Elec-
tor of Bavaria is gone by to the army, being
jealous lest the Elector should have the glory
* Though some account of Charles the Fifth, Duke of
Lorraine, has been given in a preceding note, the following
curious character of him by an illustrious contemporary may
not be unacceptable to the reader: "Maintenant voici le
portrait du Duc de Lorraine : la taille du Prince Radzivil,
Marêchal de Lithuanie, les traits du visage de Chetmaki, et
à peu près le même age que lui; le nez très-aquilain, et
presque en perroquet. Il est fortement marqué de la petite
verole, et encore plus voûté que l'epine; habit gris, sans
ornement, si ce n'est des boutons de passementerie assez
neufs; chapeau sans plumes; bottes jaunes, ou plutôt qui
l'ont été il y a trois mois; un cheval de combat passable, mais
la bride et tout le harnais communs et usés, ainsi que la selle.
Avec tout cela, il n'a pas la mine d'un marchand, mais d'un
homme comme il faut, et même d'un homme de distinction.
Il parle très bien de tout ce qui est de son ressort; d'ailleurs,
il est peu causeur, et paraît très-modeste. C'est, à propremet
parler, un galant homme, qui entend la guerre parfaitement,
et s'y applique sans relâche. Il porte une perruque blonde
des plus malfaites; en général, il est peu soucieux de sa mise,
mais c'est un homme avec qui je m'accorderai tres-facilement,
et qui est digne d'un sort plus haut." Lettres de Jean So-
bieski à sa femme.
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of happily concluding the campaign and the
war together, by taking of Belgrade.
The Turks are said to offer fair conditions
to the Emperor; but it being in the heat of a
campaign, it looks like an amazement, besides
that they would have a present cessation of
arms to be one.
The Minister of Bavaria hath protested in
the Diet of the Empire against the pretended
election (or postulation) of the Cardinal of
Furstembergh. We have not yet any account
which way the Pope is, or when he is like to
give his decision.
It is said, that some sudden orders called the
French fleet from before Algiers, and that a
part may be sent to Cadiz, or upon some other
errand.
Our squadron is still in the Downs.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
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CLXIV.
Account of an Irish Watering-place.
Wexford, 7th August, 1688.
DEAR SIR,
HAD this place afforded me any thing
worth communicating to you, I should have
paid you my respects before now: this rendez-
vous of decrepids, where people entertain one
another with histories of their several ails and
infirmities, enough if put together to make a
second Wiseman's book of Martyrs, and talk
nothing but the jargon of the place, of salts
and minerals, volatile spirits, vomits, stools,
tinging, precipitating, passing, or, as the ladies
say, rendering :* then for dry roasted mutton,
and rabbits, and chickens without sauce, and
to be kept waking, as they try witches. And
fantastical ladies, and fops, and lampoons in
Wexford doggrel, would be an entertainment
to you as bad as drinking the waters them-
* The town of Wexford, in the county of that name, pos-
sesses a mineral well, which is called "The Spa;" at the
time this letter was written it was much frequented, which
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selves. But with all this, I thank God I have
made a considerable improvement in my health,
and would gladly stay till Saturday sevennight,
if I were not wanted. I beg you to give my
duty to the Commissioners, and readiness to
obey their commands, if required to come
sooner; though I shall be tempted to return
with the Bishop of Kilmore in the beginning of
next week, for the convenience of his coach;
but am not resolved. Lord Chancellor* goes
hence to-morrow, the waters having agreed
with him extraordinarily. I have desired Mr.
Searl to wait upon you about an affair of my
own, in which I dare assure myself of your
kindness. Please to give Mr. Smith my hearty
service, and accept of the same from,
Dear Sir,
Your most faithful,
VOL. II.
Humble Servant,
JA. BONNEll.
Not a word of Mr. Hodson here, though a
letter lies for him.
Sir Alexander Fitton.
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Pray let Mr. Farel know I had his letter. I
beg that Mr. Eckersal may give Mrs. Peppard
my service; and an account of mine and Dr.
King's health.
To John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Chief Commissioners of the Reve-
nue, at the Custom-house,
SIR,
Dublin.
CLXV.
A wet nurse procured for the Prince of Wales.-News
and accidents of various kinds.
London, August 9th, 1688.
AT Richmond the Prince of Wales
continues to suck the nurse allowed him, and
it hath that good effect which is natural and
usual to children; and their Majesties return-
ed thence this day to Windsor. The nurse
is the wife of a tile-maker, and seems a heal-
thy woman; she came in her cloth petticoat
and waistcoat, and old shoes and no stockings,
but she is now rigged by degrees, (that the
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surprise may not alter her in her duty and
care,) a 1007. per annum is already settled upon
her, and two or three hundred guineas already
given, which she saith that she knows not
what to do with.
Yesterday morning about three or four
o'clock died that pains-taking Henry Carre,*
author of the late Pacquett of Advice from
Rome, and of the Weekly Occurrences; some
of our chief newsmongers are posted to Wind-
sor to put in for his places.
The Judges at Oxford made strict enquiry
after those scholars who had rescued the
Townesends from the constable for abusing of
Obadiah Walker; and the High Sheriff of
the county recommended it to their lord-
ships' cares in an elegant but short speech
he made in court to this effect: "Pray, my
Lord, let's have Justice, or else good night Ni-
cholas."
The Marchioness of Powys hath had a
privy seal for 10,000l. to be paid her with-
* One of the newspaper-writers of the day.
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out account, to be laid out for the use of the
Prince of Wales.
We hear his Royal Highness is to be pro-
claimed and registered upon the Council-book
of Ludlow, though he be not likely to be
created yet some years, and the Duke of
Beaufort is continued Lord President.*
The Lord Chancellor went on Monday
morning towards Canterbury, to visit his bro-
ther who is one of the prebendaries there; his
lordship passes thence to Dover to wait on
the Countess of Pembroke,† who embarks for
France.
His Majesty dined yesterday at the camp,
and saw the right wing, horse and foot, de-
camp,
and march off towards the quarters allot-
ted them.
It proves but too true what we have already
mentioned, that at Woolwich some part of the
Of Wales.
+ Henrietta de Querouaille, sister of the Duchess of
Portsmouth, and widow of the seventh Earl of Pembro k.
Her only daughter had just married the Chancellor's only
son.
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magazine is blown up by the carelessness of
some of the workmen, who, contrary to their
orders, used iron hammers instead of wooden
ones about the granado shells, which they were
a-making; but the poor men paid for their
negligence with their lives; one of them being
cut in the middle, and another having his head
blown off; several others are wounded, and
some houses blown up, one piece of the bombs
shearing in two the cable of a ship that rode
on the other side of the river.
▸
A Mandamus is gone down for a Doctor's
degree to Mr. Hall, Bishop elect of Oxford.
His curate at Alhallowes-Stayning puts in hard
to succeed him there, but it is thought he will
keep it by commendam.
The Churchwardens of Oxfordshire were
summoned to Oxford to give an account who
read the Declaration; but being all come, no-
body asked them the question, for it seems
they were not sent for by the Chancellor.
About 11 o'clock last night, a fire broke out
near Bennet's Castle, burning down about sixty
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houses, and several persons perishing in this
sad occasion; among whom, honest Clowsly of
the Swan, is much lamented.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
SIR,
CLXVI.
Court news.--Affairs of the East India Company.--Suc-
cesses of the Imperialists against the Turks, &c.
London, Aug. 14th, 1688.
ON Saturday last, his Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales was removed from Rich-
mond to Windsor, where he is lodged in the
Princess of Denmark's house (which was Mrs.
Ellen Gwyn's*), and is well recovered of his
late indisposition, to the joy of the whole Court
and kingdom.
* Nell Gwynn, the well-known mistress of Charles the
Second.
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His Highness's nurse is also in health and
good plight, being kept to her old diet and
exercise. She hath also a governess allowed her
(an ancient gentlewoman), who is with her
night and day, at home and abroad.
Last week arrived from the East Indies one
Dr. St. Johns, who has been there for some
years as Judge of the Admiralty for the East
India Company. He is said to give an account
of affairs in those parts, that is quite different
from what was published in the Gazette, and
not at all comfortable for the nation, at least
for those concerned in the same bottom with
the Company. The said Doctor attended the
King in Council last Sunday in Windsor, where
the matter of his information depends. He
hath also some complaints of his own against
the chief of that Company, who have of their
own heads (and without any orders from his
Majesty) taken away the Doctor's commission,
which was under the Great Seal-but of this
more hereafter. But it animates already a great
grumbling in the City against a certain great
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East India merchant, whose first name rhymes
with Goliah.*
We hear every post some little advantages
which the Imperialists have against the Turks.
The Germans are passed the Save, and have
taken a strong palank near Belgrade. They
were but 8 or 900 men in all. There came
6000 Turks to make head against them, who
of a sudden, fearing some trap or ambuscade
was laid for them, were seized with such a
fright, that they fled back to Belgrade, and left
1200 dead behind them, and the Germans mas-
ters of the place. The relation is so strange
and seemingly improbable, that it will want a
confirmation, though there be letters of it come
from General Ashenhurst, who commanded the
party.
The same letters say that Yeghen Pacha was
at last come up to Belgrade, the peace and
friendship between him and Osman, Pacha of
that place, being thought to be made up. The
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:
first thing he did was to proclaim himself Se-
raskier, and then endeavoured, but missed nar-
rowly, to seize Osman in his tent. These new
animosities being broke out, will likely discon-
cert all the forces the Turks have in those
parts, and turn their swords against themselves,
so that the Germans may promise themselves
good success.
Till the issue of Belgrade be over, the Em-
peror will not give any answer to the condi-
tions of peace said to be offered him.
The Janizaries of Candia have cut the throats
of all their officers, and sent to the Doge Mo-
rosini* to offer him the Island, upon condition
he will transport all the Turks into Asia, which
no doubt will be easily granted.
The French letters give but little hopes
that the Pope will be brought to confirm the
* Francis Morosini, who had previously gained much repu-
tation by his successes against the Turks in the Morea, had
just been elected Doge of Venice. At the time of his
promotion he was employed in commanding the Venetian
fleet in the Gulf of Egina. He died January 6th, 1694, at
Napoli di Romania.
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Cardinal of Furstemberg in the election of
Cologne; and if the most Christian King be
as zealous and resolute for the Cardinal, as the
Emperor, they say, will be for Prince Clement,
that matter may yet cause some bloody noses
ere it be ended.
Just upon the coming away of our Flanders
letters, an express is said to be arrived with
an account that the election of Liege was
over; that the Grand Dean was chosen Prince
and Bishop; and thus the Cardinal baffled in
all his new pretensions, but more of this here-
after.
The Prince of Orange is now forming a
camp near Mastricht; and it is said the Elector
of Brandeburgh and other neighbour princes
are to have bodies of men within call, to join
if there shall be occasion.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
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SIR,
CLXVII.
Trial between Sheriff Firebrace and Mr. Brett.-
Various news.
London, August 16th, 1688.
C
THIS day at ten of the clock, the Lords
Commissioners for Ecclesiastical causes met
at the Council-chamber in Whitehall, to re-
ceive the returns made by the several Chan-
cellors and Archdeacons about reading the
King's Declaration. The returns made are
said to be satisfactory, but are kept private, of
which we shall give a better account in our
next.
The difference between Sheriff Firebrass and
Mr. Brett, about the money lost by the first to
the last at play, hath been heard in the Court
of King's Bench and in Chancery, and in both
courts the case seemed favourable for Sir Ba-
sill;* though he it was that lost the money to
the value of 2900 guineas, and then is said by
* Sir Basil Firebrace.
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force to have taken away above one-half from
Brett, the winner. The Lord Chancellor, the
last term, referred the matter to themselves to
be amicably made up; but since, it is said,
some of the chief witnesses for Sir Basill, par-
ticularly his butler, had tacked about, and do
retract what they once swore for Firebrass, and
do begin to swear for Brett; and so the mat-
ter may have farther consequences than was
at first thought of.
Mr. Weston, an iron-merchant, did narrowly
escape destruction at the unhappy accident at
Woolwich, where he happened to be when the
magazine blew up, and was in a room whence
he could not have escaped, if a bomb had not
blown down the side of a house and made way
for him. In consideration of this deliverance,
he is about settling a sermon to be preached
upon that day for ever, at his parish church in
London, and another at Woolwich, and intends
some farther charity to the poor.
Clowsley, at the Swan in Fish-street, was
buried three nights ago with great decency and
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good order, the members of most of the public
offices about the town being invited, and a nota-
ble sermon was preached upon the text of the
falling of the Tower of Siloam. The damages
of that fire are reckoned to be 30,000l.
The Right honourable the Lord Dartmouth,
who is indefatigable in the King's service, went
yesterday down the River, to view some places.
made upon the river, where the platforms are
to be built for the security of the Navy Royal
at Chatham.
The Marquess d'Albeville, his Majesty's
Envoy in Holland, is arrived, and gone to wait
on the King at Windsor.
The French letters confirm what we writ
in our last, that the lot in the election at Liege
was fallen upon the Baron de Elderen, the
Grand Dean, who is a native of Brabant; and
so the Cardinal of Furstemberg is foiled out of
all share in the spoils of the late Elector
of Cologne.
The French King hath given orders for the
raising of 10,000 foot and 6000 horse, and hath
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sent his commands to all his officers to be ready
and upon their guard.
*
All letters agree that Candia is reduced
under the Venetians; so the Doge Morosini
hath recovered in a day, without blood or
expense, a place that cost so much of both
when it was lost, and is of the greatest import-
ance to the trade of Christendom.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
At Dublin.
Ireland,
SIR,
CLXVIII.
Foreign news.-King gone to see his ships.-Ecclesiastical
Commission.
London, August 18th, 1688.
THE Gazette gives an account how that
the rich widow Princess of Radzivil baulked
* If the Venetians had succeeded at this moment in re-
covering part of the Island of Candia, it did not remain long
in their possession, since the Turks, in the course of this war,
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the Prince of Poland,* and is married to the
Prince Palatine: it may be added, how the
French Ambassador in the Court of Berlin
was so far surprised with this sudden match,
that he thrust himself into the room where the
married couple were, with a design to break
off the marriage, but found them just a-dress-
ing after they had been a-bed and consum-
mated the marriage. How Prince Jacobt of
Poland will resent the loss of his mistress, time
must tell us.
The French begin to fail of their usual suc-
cess elsewhere also; for, as they failed in this
love-intrigue, we have it from all hands con-
firmed they did the like in the elections of
Cologne, Munster, and Liege, where the Dean
was chosen; so, as we have already said, the
conquered the whole of it, with the exception of the fortresses
of Suda and Spinalonga, and it has remained ever since under
their domination.
* For an account of this transaction, see note †, at page
87.
+ Meaning James.
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Cardinal of Furstemberg had no share in the
feathers of the dead Elector.
The Pope is said to have sent his Bull in
favour of Prince Clement's election; and the
French King has ordered 10,000 foot and 6000
horse to be raised, which the world believes are
designed in favour of the Cardinal. The Dutch
on their post stand upon their guard, and are
to have 20,000 men encamped near the fron-
tiers, to watch the motions of their neighbours.
The Pope hath excommunicated Mons'. Ta-
lon, the French Advocate-general, who made
the late speech in favour of the King, against
his Holiness, in the matter of the Franchises.
His Majesty goes next Tuesday down the
River to Portsmouth, where the squadron of
ships now at sea will meet his Majesty, and
orders are given for fitting some more ships to
be ready upon occasion. The Dutch are also
said to be refitting several of their biggest
ships.
The Queen Dowager intends to live some-
times out of London, and has sent to view
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Knole,* the Earl of Dorset's† house in Kent,
which has more rooms than any house in Eng-
land.
The University of Oxford has appointed a
deputation of doctors and others, who are to be
in London next week, to install the Duke of
Ormond their Chancellor.
The Lords for Ecclesiastical Causes met the
16th, and received the few returns that were
made about reading the Declaration. Many
of the Chancellors attended in person, and sent
word they had no returns, but were there ready
if the Lords had any thing to say to them.
Dr. Wainwright, of Chester, and Dr. Paine,
* Knowle near Sevenoaks, the ancient seat of the Sack-
villes.
+ Charles (Sackville) sixth Earl of Dorset, the celebrated
wit of the time of Charles the Second. Lord Orford says
of him that, "He was the finest gentleman in the voluptuous
court of Charles II. and in the gloomy one of William. He
had as much wit as his first master, or his contemporaries
Buckingham and Rochester, without the royal want of feel-
ing, the Duke's want of principles, or the Earl's want of
thought." He died January 25th, 1706, leaving behind him
an only son, subsequently created Duke of Dorset.
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for Rochester, returned a few names that read;
others sent up word, that they either never
saw the Declaration, or saw it by chance, or
saw not the order for reading it. This is but
an uncertain account; the matter is kept pri-
vate, and the Court adjourned to the 6th of
December next.*
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
At Dublin.
Ireland,
SIR,
CLXIX.
Dutch fitting out ships.-News of various kinds, &c.
London, Aug. 21st, 1688.
ALL the news at court and city at pre-
sent is, that the Dutch are a-fitting out several
capital ships; some say twenty, others thirty or
forty in number; and that they are working at it
night and day, as if they had some mighty en-
The Ecclesiastical Commission never met again after
this time.
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terprise in hand, at least in their heads; though,
all things considered, they cannot well put any
ships at all to sea at this time, since the banks
of their country are usually shut up with the
frost in September: so that this equipage must
be designed for the next year, though it may
serve now to add weight and value to the
States, who are entered into leagues with the
Protestant Princes of Germany for the keep-
ing of the peace, which is in some danger from
the eager contests that are like to be about the
election at Cologne.
Nor is there any good ground for another
report that flies about, which is, that the Dutch
are to send hither two ambassadors very spee-
dily with some hasty message, being to stay
when they are come but four or five days:
this is some coffee-house discourse blown about
to amuse the world.
To-morrow the Queen is to do the Lord
Chancellor the honour to dine at Bulstrode,
whither her Majesty goes attended with seve-
ral of the chief ladies at Court.
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His Majesty's progress to Portsmouth is
put off for some longer time.
Last Thursday an officer of Colonel Kirk's*
regiment wounded a waterman upon the
Thames, for dashing of him with water; he
is not yet dead, but the officer is said to ab- ·
scond.
The Bishop of Chester's son had a Manda-
mus lately to All Souls in Oxon for a living
which is in that college's gift, and is said
to be resigned into the King's hand by the
Bishop himself who enjoyed it: all the an-
swer that the college is said to give is, that
they will consider of it.
Next Thursday the Duke of Ormond keeps
his Installation-dinner; several members of
* Kirk was an officer of ability, but had rendered himself
infamous by the cruelties he had perpetrated in the West
during Monmouth's rebellion; which Burnet attributes to
his "having commanded so long at Tangier, that he was
become savage by the neighbourhood of the Moors there."
When James asked him to change his religion, he answered,
that he was already pre-engaged, having promised the Empe-
ror of Morocco, if ever he did change, to turn Mahometan.
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the University of Oxon being to be then in
town to perform that ceremony, amongst whom
are to be Dr. Jane,* Dr. Wallis, Dr. Aldridge,
Dr. Holton and others.
The Hague letters tell us of a Frenchman,
that, under the disguise of a refuged Protes-
tant, was a Papist, and betrayed all those that
fled thither, wheedling them to tell him how
they had escaped, and where their estates lay,
and then giving notice of it to the French
Ambassador. The States had knowledge of
it, and sent to seize him; but knowing his
guilt, and being a desperate fellow, he chose
to die rather than be taken.
We hear the Cardinal of Furstemberg hath
new coaches making at Paris with the arms
of the Elector upon them, which looks as if
he were resolved to stand his ground whether
the Pope says amen to it or no.
* Dr. Jane was one of the Whitehall preachers, and was
the man who, with Patrick, argued before Lord Rochester
against two Catholic Doctors upon the points of difference
between the two religion.
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The German army passed the Save the 28th
of July, old style, so that by this time the
strength and fate of Belgrade is known in
some measure; Count Tekely and a party of
Tartars undertook to dispute the passage to
them, but were glad to retreat in great confu-
sion, and to get into Belgrade.
The Pacha of Egypt is said to have rebelled,
and to have refused to send any men into the
service of the Grand Seignior.
There has been a dismal earthquake at
Smirna, which destroyed a great part of the
city, and buried some of our English mer-
chants under its ruins; and what makes it the
more lamentable is, that a fire succeeding, was
likely to consume all that remained; for the
ship that brought those sad news left it still
burning.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
* On the 6th of August, Prince Lewis of Baden had com-
pletely defeated fifteen thousand Turks.
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CLXX.
Prince and Princess at Tunbridge.-Ecclesiastical Commis-
sion adjourned.
Tunbridge, August 21st, 1688.
DEAR SIR,
THAT I do not weekly persecute you
according to my old wont, you are in part be-
holden to my maladies, that have kept me here
fourteen days, and in part to other avocations.
For news, I cannot tell what to say at this
distance from Court, though we have a faint
representation of one here: her Royal High-
ness and Prince George,* whose stay has been
a month, and is to extend a month longer.
The world is surely running into a high bustle,
and one year will let us see whose party is
strongest; for my share, I know not what to
wish or fear, I think even to drive adrift.
Our Ecclesiastical Commission flags mightily
*The Princess Anne and her husband Prince George of
Denmark. They were anxious at this time to be as much
away from Court as possible.
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in their work, as it should seem by the length
of their adjournment to the 1st Thursday in
December. The inclosed, I hope, will bring
some money into your hands. I am wishing
for 507. there; do the utmost you can, pray,
with Colonel Sarsefield.* Seal and send the
inclosed. I shall be at London to-morrow, and
not stir thence again; so yours with the usual
direction to be left with Mr. James Dalton at
the General Post-office, will always find me.
I would be glad to be your remembrancer to
the Bishop, if I knew what to say; for Fr.
Cave here, as well as my own imagination, tells
me you are weary.
Yours always,
J. F.
Pray, if Dick Pine be killed, let me know
what his widow, my countrywoman, is the
better for it.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary of
His Majesty's Revenue in Ireland,
Ireland.
Dublin.
* Afterwards created Lord Lucan.
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SIR,
CLXXI.
Judge Allibone dead.-Earthquake at Smyrna.-Council at
Windsor.-Foreign news.
London, Aug. 23d, 1688.
WHEN the Lords Commissioners for
Ecclesiastical Causes met last Thursday, there
was no Judge present but Chief Justice Her-
bert, and no Bishop but he of Chester. The
Bishop of Rochester* sent his excuse in a letter,
that he could not come, and that it was not in
his intention to act any more in the Commis-
sion, especially against those of his own order,
the Bishops. (The letter was well penned.)
This looking like a disgust in that Bishop,
there is the less opposition in the Bishop of
Chester's way to the Archbishoprick of York.
Last night died Judge Allybone, at his house
near Gray's-Inn. He was but newly returned
home from his circuit; his death is said to be
caused by a great cold which he took in pass-
ing through the wilds of Kent, as well as by
* Sprat.
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his overheating himself by his vehemence in
declaiming against the Bishops in his charge to
the Juries.
The bad news from Smyrna continues yet,
but our merchants hope it is not so bad as the
first report made it; which said, that a terrible,
earthquake has overturned the foundations of
all the town, and that a violent fire broke out,
which with its sulphurous smell stifled those
that had escaped from the ruins; that the
first noise, which began with dismal groanings,
came from a mountain which stands above the
town, which is said to be all sunk excepting
a little chapel which stands at one end of it,
where St. John is said to have been frequent
at the first beginnings of Christianity. But all
will deserve a confirmation.
On Friday, that is to-morrow, is summoned
a general Council to be held at Windsor, where
it is believed his Majesty will be pleased to de-
clare himself as to the day that the Parliament
is to meet at Westminster.
The Windsor air begins to be sharp, and for
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that reason it is thought the Prince will not con-
tinue much longer there, but will be removed
either to Richmond or rather to St. James's.
His Majesty has sent orders to all officers
and soldiers to repair to their respective quar-
ters; and some say the reason of it to be that
the soldiers are rude in several places, and
that his Majesty is troubled with frequent
complaints against them.
Their Majesties did the Lord Chancellor
the honour to dine at his house at Bulstrode,
where there was a most splendid entertain-
ment, befitting the royal guests, and his lord-
ship's generosity and affection to the Crown.
We have nothing from Holland but new
libels against his Majesty and his Government,
and daily alarums of more ships a-fitting out;
but though we have had indeed some instances
to the contrary, yet September has been looked
upon too late for a fleet to dance at sea, what-
ever the present intention may be; which a
short time may disclose to us.
The next German letters may tell us some-
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thing of Belgrade. The army passed the Save
the 29th past, old style, and found little re-
sistance. The Elector of Bavaria showed great,
some think desperate, resolution, in marching
500 only of his troops over the river, where
were at least 8 or 10,000 to resist them: the.
Duke of Lorraine's friends were against it;
and the Duke himself is so fond of glory that
he is resolved for the army, and ot share that
of taking Belgrade with the Elector. The
Queen Duchess is as fond of the Duke, and
resolved to follow him to the army, consider-
ing his ill state of health; but the Emperor
has laid his commands upon her not to go
beyond Buda. A Turkish Chiave was in his
way to Buda with conditions of peace, and
the Emperor's Commissioners were a-going to
meet and treat with them.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
At Dublin.
Ireland,
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CLXXII.
Duke of Ormonde receives the University Deputation.-
Dutch Preparations.-Parliament to be summoned.-Bel-
grade taken.
London, August 25th, 1688.
YOURS of the 14th came to me at my
La. D. of Ormonde's when I was going amongst
above 500 more, to sit down to dinner on Thurs-
day. They were highly treated, and took it as
well. The Vice-Chancellor Ironside made him a
short speech, and the Elder Proctor a longer;
eloquent enough, and the compliments well
couched. His Grace answered short in English.
He hath writ his acceptance of the favour
they have done him on your side; but it had
been purer if they had not doubted, for Na-
ture never formed a more undaunted and set-
tled resolution to support the cause he pretends
to serve. I suppose upon the receipt of his
he is declared, and all matters settled relating
thereto. We are wonderfully in the dark here
what is like to happen. The Dutch are put-
ting out nine capital ships: they have great
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quantities (8000) of arms aboard, and accoutre-
ments for 4000 horse. The French King hath
sent an advertisement that it is designed an
invasion upon us, and the Manifesto thereupon
is already here, and passeth privately amongst
his well-willers. The King says he cannot ima-
gine the aim, and yet I find some of our noble-
men suspected of strange, unnatural dealing.
Some ten of our great ships are fitting with
all haste, and our fleet come to the Buoy of
the Nore. They work day and night at the
rest of their great ships in Holland, and put
them over the pampus as they are ready. Prince
of Orange hath taken up 300,000l. upon his own
credit. These preparations are managed by a
secret Committee of seven, all confidents of
*
* Lords Mordaunt, Shrewsbury, Delamere, Derby, Not-
tingham, Lumley, Devonshire, Harry Sydney, Admiral Rus-
sell, the Bishops of London and Bristol, three of the principal
General officers of the Army, Trelawney, Kirk, and Lord
Churchill, and many others of different degrees were at this
time in correspondence with the Prince of Orange, and urging
him to come over to England, though certainly not as yet
with any view of making him King.
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the Prince's and the States have reposed such a
trust, that they are accountable to none for
their actions. The French army are marched,
and that King hath made eighty General-
officers, whereof nineteen Lieutenant-generals;
and the Germans are marching too to join the
Dutch army: never more appearance of a
severe war; you may believe our Court very
anxious. Yesterday was for a General Council
about the Parliament, according to conjecture.
The young Prince is very lively and sucks
strongly, but seems withal to be asthmatic.
An Eschevin at St. Omer's is sent bound hand
and foot to Paris, a design being discovered
of betraying Calais to the Dutch, as the King
thinks: most of this foreign account is from
his own mouth yesterday, after reading his
letters. Russell, I believe, will have the re-
giment of horse, (and then desired to sell it
though); the engines be against him. I will
do my best for you with Rene Grahme, but I
have a debt of my own there, which I have
not asked him for these seven years. I have
CA
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·
put the like trouble upon you to Sarsefield and
Aunt Eustace.
Yesterday, a Council was held at Windsor
about the calling a Parliament; the Lord
Chancellor was very warm with Lord Presi-
dent against it, but was over-ruled: so the
writs are to issue the 18th of Oct. and the
Parliament to meet 27th Nov. This evening
an express from Flanders went to the King,
with the news of Belgrade's being taken with-
out any loss on the Christians' part.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary of
His Majesty's Revenue in Ireland,
Ireland.
At Dublin.
CLXXIII.
St. James's, August 26th, 1688.
DEAR BROTHER,
COLONEL DEMPSY would not go with-
out a letter from me to you. I received a long
* Belgrade was not taken till the 6th of September, when
the Elector of Bavaria, at the head of the Imperial troops,
gained possession of it by assault. This account probably
alluded to some of the forts or outworks belonging to it.
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one lately from you, which my weakness will
not permit me to answer yet: it is only an ac-
cidental indisposition, caused by a long jour-
ney; when I am able, I will give you a farther
account of things, and of myself, being,
Dear Brother,
Remember me to brother William. We all
here are well, and the Prince very particularly;
but something alarmed at the Holland prepa-
rations.
Your affectionate Brother, and
Humble Servant,
ELLIS.*
To John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to his
Majesty's Commissioners for the
Revenue in Ireland,
*
VOL. II.
At Dublin.
The signature of Philip Ellis, the Popish Bishop,
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SIR,
CLXXIV.
Increase of Irish Revenue.-Praise of the Duke of Ormonde.
Cornbury, August 27th, 1688.
YOUR'S of the 6th instant came to me
hither, where I have been upon my private.
affairs about a fortnight, and shall not be at
London till about a fortnight hence; so that
you will not expect I should entertain you
much from hence. I am very glad the Revenue
there holds up so wonderfully it is indeed
very extraordinary the Customs Inwards should
swell, when trade visibly decays, and the con-
sumption lessens, which seem to be contradic-
tions; God send the Revenue may not sink on
a sudden! Your University* could not have
done better than in choosing the Duke of Or-
mond their Chancellor, as ours has done, which
pleaseth all good men. Too much honour and
respect cannot be conferred on that family;
and none has more reason to reverence it than
those in Ireland, whose ingratitude makes them
pleased at his death; but the late Duke's me-
* The University of Dublin.
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mory will live for ever among all honest Eng-
lishmen; and this present Duke will worthily
support the glory of his great name. When I
am in town I shall write more largely to you,
as occasion offers; at present I shall only as-
sure you that I am very truly,
Sir,
Your most affectionate Servant,
CLARENDON.
Pray do me the kindness to let the inclosed
be delivered to my good Lord Longford, with
my most humble service.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners of the Revenue in
Ireland,
Dublin.
SIR,
CLXXV.
The French King expostulates with the Dutch on their pre-
parations.-Other Foreign news.-Lord Mayor thrown
from his horse.
London, Aug. 30th, 1688.
THE Lord Dartmouth is gone down to
Chatham, to give the necessary orders for equip-
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ping of ten men of war more, which will be
ready in three weeks' time.
The French King is said to have ordered
his Ambassador in Holland to expostulate with
the Dutch about the design of their present
arming by sea and land; with this intimation,
that he will look upon the first step they make
against any of his allies to be against himself,
and a breach of the peace; and will thereupon
march 50,000 men into their country. The
Dutch, on their side, have also sent to their
Ambassador at Paris, to desire the French King
to take off the new impositions he has lately
laid upon their commodities, as herrings, cloth,
&c. and to release some Dutch ships that have
been long arrested in France; otherwise, that
they will be forced to grant reprisals to their
subjects. We must expect the answer of either
side.
In the mean time the Prince of Orange is at
his camp with 20,000 men, and a good body of
artillery; and letters from the Empire tell us
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that several of those next adjacent Princes are
marching such bodies of their troops towards
the Rhine, as will, with the Dutch forces, make
up 60,000 men, which the Prince of Orange is
to command in chief.
Some letters tell us, that the Pope has abso-
lutely confirmed the election of Prince Clement,
and given no other answer to the French party
who solicited for the Cardinal, than that he
wondered how the King of France comes to
meddle in elections within the Empire, and how
Furstemberg, being already Cardinal and Bi-
shop of Strasburgh, comes to desire more bene-
fices.
The Dolphin✶ is to have an army under his
command; and most people think he will march
o wards Switzerland, and may have a design
upon Geneva.
Some thousands of Suisses are put into
"The Dolphin" means the Dauphin, commonly called
the Grand Dauphin, only son of Lewis the Fourteenth; who
died during the lifetime of his father.
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Dunkirk and Calais; and several officers in these
places are said to be sent up to Paris in cus-
tody.
Sir John Shorter,* the present Lord Mayor,
lies very ill with a fall off his horse, under
Newgate, as he was going to proclaim Bartholo-
mew fair. The City custom is, it seems, to drink
always under Newgate when the Lord Mayor
passes that way; and at this time the Lord
Mayor's horse being somewhat skittish, started
at the sight of a large glittering tankard which
was reached to his Lordship.
The next Lord Mayor, it is said, will be
Sir John Isles, an anabaptist; and Alderman
Thompson and Edwynne, to be Sheriffs.
The African Company is said to have put a
*Sir John Shorter was the son of John Shorter, Esq. of
Staines, in Middlesex, and of a grandaughter of Lord Forbes,
of the kingdom of Scotland. Sir John was ancestor, by his
two grandaughters, of the Walpoles, Earls of Orford, of the
first creation; and of the Seymours, Marquises of Hertford.
Sir John Shorter died of the fall here mentioned, as will be
seen by a subsequent letter.
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stop to the payment of any money for the pre-
sent out of their stock.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
Dublin.
CLXXVI.
Duke of Ormonde.-Mr. Chudleigh, &c.
30th August, 1688.
DEAR SIR,
I RECEIVED last night together both
your letters of the 15th and 23rd: where the
first lay so long, I am not able to tell you ;
I am sure I am glad it came at last. Mr.
Lowndes, who keeps all the Irish Papers, is
out of town; when we come together again, I
will get you a copy of Mr. Galway's thirty-
nine articles, which are very long; but I am
in hopes that I may see you suddenly here, and
then I will put those papers into your hands.
What I hear of the increase of your Revenue is
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very extraordinary, but I fancy it were not
difficult to find the reason of it, especially if it
happens upon the Customs. James Clarke and
his wife send you their affectionate services:
they have taken the next house to your friend
Mr. Chudleigh, where they will always be glad
to see you. The good Duke of Ormonde hath
no farther service for him; his Grace continues
all his grandfather's officers in the principality
of Tipperary, and commissions for them went
away yesterday. If I had a good conveyance, I
could send as good a story as yours of the 23rd
of August, and much to the same purpose;
but that shall serve us to talk of. Mr. Chud. is
going out of England in three or four days, in
discontent I fear: he hath parted with every
servant he kept here. I was last night stand-
ing at James Clarke's door, and I see him come
out of his in very great ceremony, with a
couple of priests. I was to wait on him. He
told me he thought he should pass this winter
at Paris, though I hear it will be at Rome. I
received last night the inclosed for you from
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Cornbury. My wife and her sister send you
their humble services; and I am with all my
heart,
Mr. J. Ellis.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners of his Majesty's Re-
venues of Ireland,
Dublin.
SIR,
Dear Sir,
Your most faithful humble servant,
WM. SHAW.
CLXXVII.
Naval preparations on all sides.-News from France and
Turkey.-Medal respecting the Seven Bishops.
London, Sept. 1st, 1688.
ALL hands are at work here, as well as
with our neighbours, in fitting out ships to sea.
His Majesty's fleet will be increased to about
thirty-two ships, and it is said the Lord Dart-
mouth is to command the same as Admiral,
by whose care and diligence, next that of his
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Majesty, these ships are rigged out with so
much expedition. It is also talked, as if his
Majesty intended to give his Lordship an ad-
ditional honour of an Earl,* as a farther mark
of his favour.
The Dutch fleet rides still before the Maze,
and fresh ships are added to it with speed from
the several places that are obliged to furnish
the same: the town of Amsterdam hath equip-
ped twelve for their proportion.
Seamen are wanting everywhere; and as they
flock but tardily to the English fleet, so the
Dutch are forced to use all arts to debauch
our mariners, by rewards, promises, and a good
salary. The French Protestants are very ready
and forward for any expedition.
We may expect ere long some declaration
or other from the French Ambassador at the
Hague, upon the subject of their land and sea
* The Lord Dartmouth in question, who was the first Lord
of that title, was never created an Earl. His son,
His son, however,
received that honour from the hands of Queen Anne, Sept. 5,
1711.
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preparations; and foreign news-letters give out
that the Princes of the Rhine have a number
of troops already in march to join the Dutch,
and that others are invited into the alliance,
particularly the Kings of Denmark and Swe-
den; and that a body of Swedes are to be put
on board the Dutch fleet, whenever they sail.
Notwithstanding the fair prospect we had of
an accommodation between the Court of Rome
and France, our late French letters almost cramp
the hopes of it. They tell us that the Mar-
quis of Croissy* went to the Cardinal-Nuncio
in the Christian King's name, and told him
that, his Majesty having been informed that
the Pope had ordered a reward for such as
should bring in two of the Marquis de Lavar-
din's officers alive or dead, he let him know
that in case any misfortune befell them, the
* Charles Colbert de Croissi, brother of the great Colbert.
He had been employed with credit in several embassies, and
was now Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in which
situation he had succeeded Arnaud de Pomponne, in 1679.
He died in 1696.
+ The French Ambassador at Rome.
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King would cause two to be chosen out of the
Nuncio's, who should be served in the like
manner; and that in case the Ambassador was
attacked, they should be indispensably obliged
to attack the person of the Nuncio, to give him
the same treatment.
His Eminency made answer, that he was
Nuncio, and was acknowledged as such by his
Majesty; whereas the Marquis of Lavardin
was but a private person, neither having been
owned nor received by the Pope; and that
the difference was great between them two.
The Marquis of Croissy replied, that the
quality of Ambassador was given by those
that send them, and not by those that received
them.
The Nuncio told him, he was ready to be
gone, and return into Italy; but De Croissy
retorted, that he must have a care of stirring
from Paris, or any of his domestics; and that
he let him know this in the King his master's
name; and that otherwise other measures should
be taken.
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We have no farther account of the Turkish
peace, the Emperor being not willing to give
his answer upon the condition offered, till he
has consulted with his allies.
The fair weather may invite the Court to
stay some longer time than was once intended
at Windsor.
The Duke of Albemarle and his consociety
have a new patent passing for them for fish-
ing upon any wreck in the West Indies, with-
in a year, beginning the 20th of Aug. 1688.
His Majesty has granted a charter of Incor-
poration to the French Protestants lately come
over, with power to build a church for them-
selves.
A medal is said to run about with the Seven
Bishops on one side, with these words; "Wis-
dom hath built her house, and chosen out seven
pillars" on the other side, a church under-
mined by a Jesuit and a fanatic, with these
words; "The gates of Hell shall not prevail
against her."
The Lord Mayor lay dangerously ill with
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his late bruise (or rather fright) by his fall,
but is said now to be much better.
The report which we inserted in our last
of the African Company having stopped the
payment of any money, is false.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
CLXXVIII.
Dutch Fleet and Army ready.
London, September 1st, 1688.
SOMETHING like your account of the
23d is not unknown to us here, though I think
there is little credit now given by the people
of most understanding to the apprehensions that
the Dutch would invade here. They are not
out yet, nor the spare arms and saddles aboard,
but all of them, and what part of their army
they please, may be so in forty-eight hours. I
hear the Pope's decision is not come, and the
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French King's orders not to do any violence
till then. We think the Dutch will not be
aggressors, which is in a good measure the
ground of our security. Their confederates, and
25,000 of their own, will form them an army
of 52,000 within ten days, on the Rhine; and I
think 8000 of them may be spared to embark,
and do much mischief about Rochell, &c.: this
notion, and their coming out that they may
not be caught tardy in the spring, is the last
conjecture. The Dutch have twenty-two great
ships in the Maas mouth, and brag of ninety-six
to be in a fleet in six weeks. D. of Orinonde
is at Badminton. We shall have thirty-eight
ships and twelve fire-ships shortly abroad.
Yours,
J. F.
Rene Grahme and all other officers are at
their places. Herbert is at last declared Vice-
-
"In July 1688, Admiral Herbert came over to Holland,
and was received with a particular regard to his pride and ill-
humour; for he was upon every occasion so sullen and pee-
vish, that it was plain he set a high value on himself, and
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=
MOS
Admiral of North Holland, with 600l. per an-
num pension.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary of His
Majesty's Revenue in Ireland,
At Dublin.
Ireland.
expected the same of all others. He had got his accounts
passed, in which he complained that the King had used him.
not only hardly but unjustly. He was a man delivered up to
pride and luxury. Yet he had a good understanding; and he
had gained so great a reputation by his steady behaviour in
England, that the Prince understood that it was expected he
should use him as he himself should desire; in which it was
not very easy to him to constrain himself so far as that re-
quired. The managing him was in a great measure put on
me; and it was no easy thing. It made me often reflect on
the providence of God, that makes some men instruments in
great things, to which they themselves have no sort of affec-
tion or disposition; for his private quarrel with the Lord
Dartmouth, who he thought had more of the King's confidence
than himself had, was believed the root of all the sullenness
he fell under towards the King, and of all the firmness that
grew out of that."-Burnet.
•
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SIR,
CLXXIX.
Death of John Bunyan.-Roman Catholic Clergy confirm their
youth.-Charter of Chester changed.- Various reports
from abroad.
London, Sept. 6th, 1688.
ON Tuesday last died, as we have said
already, the Lord Mayor, Sir John Shorter:
the occasion of his distemper was his fall under
Newgate, which bruised him a little, and put
him into a fever. His Lordship had a piece of
helpless comfort brought him before he died,
'which was, that a Corn-mcter's place, and that
of the Common Hunt were fallen void the same
day, which were worth to him, or rather his
executors, 3000l. Few days before died Bun-
nian,* his Lordship's teacher, or chaplain, a
* This was the celebrated John Bunyan, the apostle of
the Baptists, and author, among many other works, of “The
Pilgrim's Progress," the most popular book in the English
language. He was a man of the most blameless life and cha-
racter, and suffered much and long, on account of his religious
opinions. He was the son of a tinker at Elstow, near Bed-
ford. He died of a fever, at the age of sixty.
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man said to be gifted that way, though once a
cobbler.
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Another gentleman, lately one of the Com-
missioners for the Customs, hath quitted this
world, though he hath not changed it for ano-
ther. He hath stript himself of what neces-
saries were most cumbersome, and is a-going to
France to be a Carthusian monk. He is said to
have given his clerk money to pay his debts,
and to qualify him to enter the same state, and
to have left his goods, except his money and
coach, to his friends.
+
A venomous report, without any truth in it,
is spread about, as if some French troops were
to land speedily, of which there is not the least
appearance, there being not the least motion of
those of his Majesty's own. And our French
letters tell us, upon strict enquiry in all the
sea-ports, that only some few thousands are
come to the water-side, to reinforce their own
garrisons, of which there is occasion, since the
Dutch fleet is so strong, and to be one-third
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manned with French Hugonots that are re-
fuged.
The Roman clergy about London, in imita-
tion of the Protestant bishops, begin their
several circuits very speedily, in order to con-
firm their youth, and others of their com-
munion.
The Charter of Chester is now passing the
Seals; most of the old members are changed;
Sir Thomas Stanley is Mayor, and Lord Bran-
don Gerrard,* Recorder.
The French youths at Paris talk of nothing
less than besieging Namur and Philipsburgh,
and say the King will begin the dance in person :
they will have four armies, one in Flanders,
under Humières ;† the second in Cologne, under
Bouflers; the third in Germany, under Ma-
réshal Duras; and the fourth towards Italy
*Lord Brandon was the eldest son of the Earl of Mac-
clesfield.
† Lewis de Crevan, Marshal d'Humières, made a Mar-
shal of France in 1668, died in 1694.
James Henry de Durfort, Marshal de Duras, nephew of
M 2
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and Suisse, under the Dolphin and the Duke
of Savoy.*
The fine rich widow Princess Radzivil, who
lately baulked the Prince of Poland, and was
so smit with the Prince of Newburg as to marry
him upon two days' acquaintance, is said to be
already cold and disgusted in her affection,
saying her husband is no man, and that her
marriage is not yet consummated, and now
cries out for the Prince of Poland again. If
this be true, women may be deceived in men,
as well as men in women: however, this great
lady has furnished a curious subject for a plea-
sant amorous novel.
the great Turenne, and brother of the Marshal de Lorge and
Lord Feversham; made a Marshal in 1675, and died in
1704.
* Victor Amadeus the Second, Duke of Savoy, King of
Sicily in 1713, which kingdom he was compelled to exchange
for that of Sardinia in 1720, abdicated the throne in favour
of his son in 1730, of which he immediately afterwards re-
pented; and died in 1732. He was a brave and able prince,
but restless and faithless to the last degree; which latter
qualities occasioned his life to be one of constant trouble and
unceasing vicissitudes.
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Lord Spencer,* son to the Earl of Sunder-
land, lies a-dying, after a lingering distemper,
at Paris.
The Venetians† expect daily the news that
the Doge has taken some part of the Island
Negropont, which was the old famous Euboea.
The Elector Palatin is said also to be dead,‡
who was father-in-law to the Emperor and
King of Portugal; if so, the Duke of Lorraine
has lost a great obstruction in his favour at the
Imperial Court, this Elector having all along
been his rival.
We do not hear the Dutch are come yet
to any resolution about the forbidding of
commerce with, or granting reprisals against,
France. Brandy wine is so essential to the
*He died on the 5th of September.
+ The Doge Francis Morosini had undertaken, in concert
with Count Konigsmark, the siege of Negropont, the capital
town of the Island of that name. The Count died during
the siege, which Morosini was obliged to raise in the autumn,
without having effected any thing.
This was a false report, as Philip William, Elector Pala-
tine, did not die till the year 1690.
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Dutch Government, that this is not very pro-
bable; Germany and Italy cannot furnish them
enough, nor such as will be useful in India
as well as Europe. But we leave this point to
those who best understand it.
The account we have of the Turkish condi-
tions is somewhat imperfect as yet.
1st.-The Turks will yield all that is taken,
with Belgrade, and their dependencies.
2d.-Restitution of slaves on both sides.
3d.-Four millions they will give in money.
The Emperor asks much more.
4th. They will give up Jerusalem and
Bethlem to the Roman Catholic religious, they
paying such tribute as the Greeks now pay.
5th.-To Poland they offer a sum of money
only.
6th. To the Venetians, Candia, and what
they have conquered in Dalmatia; but what
they will give to the Pope, besides the Holy
Sepulchre, is not yet said.*
My
* These negotiations and conditions came to nothing,
as the war continued with various success till the peace of
Carlowitz, in 1699.
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The Corn-meter that was reputed dead, proves
to be alive, and in health, though the late Lord
Mayor had disposed of his place in favour of
his son.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
SIR,
P
CLXXX.
Trial of the Officers of the Duke of Berwick's Regiment.
-Mayor of Scarborough tossed in a blanket.-Foreign
news, &c.
London, Sept. 11th, 1688.
THE Lieutenant-colonel and four Cap-
tains that refused to take in the Irishmen in
the Duke of Berwick's regiment at Portsmouth,
were tried yesterday at Windsor before a Coun-
cil of War of General Field-officers. The fact
seemed to be more favourable for the officers
than was given out at first, all of them alleg-
ing that they knew nothing of those Irishmen
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coming to town; that the Duke of Berwick
had never spoken to them of incorporating
them in their companies; that their companies
were complete, and no allowance for supernu-
meraries; and that they did not mutiny against
or oppose any order, but had only written to
Major Slingsby to desire him to represent these
matters to the Duke. What resolution the
Council of War will come to we know not.*
* The account given by Burnet of this transaction is as
follows :-" A new and unlooked for accident gave the King a
very sensible trouble. It was resolved, as was told before, to
model the Army, and to begin with recruits from Ireland.
Upon which the English army would have become insensibly
an Irish one. The King made the first trial upon the Duke
of Berwick's regiment, which being already under an illegal+
Colonel, it might be supposed they were ready to submit to
every thing. Five Irishmen were ordered to be put into
every company of that regiment, which then lay at Ports-
mouth. But Beaumont, the Lieutenant-colonel, and five of
the Captains, refused to receive them. They said they had
raised their men upon the Duke of Monmouth's invasion, by
which their zeal for the King's service did evidently appear.
If the King would order any recruits, they doubted not but
that they should be able to make them. But they found it
† As a Roman Catholic.
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Another complaint will suddenly be brought
before them by the Mayor of Scarborough, who
says he was tossed in a blanket by the com-
mand of Captain Waseley,* who quarters in
that town. What provocation the Mayor gave
is not said, but a messenger is sent to bring the
Captain up in custody.
Yesterday there came an express from Flan-
ders to the Spanish Ambassador, with the news
of Belgrade's being taken by the Elector of
would give such an universal discontent, if they should re-
ceive the Irish among them, that it would put them out of a
capacity of serving the King any more. But as the order was
positive, so the Duke of Berwick was sent down to see it
obeyed. Upon which they desired leave to lay down their
commissions. The King was provoked by this to such a de-
gree, that he could not govern his passion. The officers were
put in arrest, and brought before a Council of War, where
they were broken with reproach, and declared incapable to
serve the King any more. But upon this occasion, the whole
officers of the Army declared so great an unwillingness to mix
with those of another nation and religion, that as no more
attempts were made of this kind, so it was believed that this
fixed the King in a point that was then under debate, namely,
with regard to receiving succours from France."
* In a subsequent letter this name is spelled Ouseley.
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Bavaria; but as the news came as the Ambas-
sador was going for Windsor, so we know not
for certain whether it was by storm or by capi-
tulation, though most do affirm his Excellency
said it was by storm.
The Turkish Ambassador was come as far
as Belgrade, time enough to be eye-witness of
its being taken, and had had the Emperor's
pass to come up to Vienna with his proposals
for a peace. He hath about a hundred per-
sons in his train, and hath letters to the Em-
peror and his allies, which unnecessarily let
them see that the Sultan is weary of the war.
There are said to be letters by the last French
post from Lyons, which mention a courier's
passing through that place with the Pope's
confirmation of the Cardinal of Furstemberg;
but it is certain the Vienna letters of the 2nd,
new style, say positively the Pope hath sent
his confirmation to Prince Clement, with an
injunction therein to the Cardinal of Furstem-
berg, not to oppose him in taking quiet pos-
session of the Electorate, upon pain and pe-
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nalty of being deprived of all the dignities he
already hath. How far the French understand
this sort of canon-law, time will tell us.
It is given out in Holland, that the King of
Sweden hath promised the Prince of Orange
to come into the present alliance with his forces
by sea and land, and that he hath above thirty
ships of war ready to sail, though he may
want seamen as well as other nations.
The seamen of England, and of other coun-
tries which flocked to the Dutch, begin to de-
sert again, and come over hither faster than
they went. They find themselves trapped by
a little Dutch sophistry, being they are listed
to serve at sea, and yet fancy they are to be
employed by land-service, or, as occasion shall
serve, at both sea and land; which double
duty tarpaulins cannot dispense with.
What is writ about of a living in Mag-
dalen College gift, that is presented to by Dr.
Hough and the ejected Fellows, is a false
report.
The Dutch Ambassador is said to have
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assured the King, that his masters the States
were much surprised at our sea-preparations,
which gave them the chief occasion to arm;
and that the French Memorial lately given in
heightens their apprehensions, and that they
would be glad to know, whereto that strict
alliance mentioned therein doth tend.
There lately appears from hand to hand a
new pamphlet called The Anatomy of an Equi-
valent,* which makes great noise, and is censured
according to each man's passion: it is very sharp
and biting, though the application be veiled
over, and is said to be writ by a noble peer.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
At Dublin.
Ireland,
* "The Anatomy of an Equivalent," a political pamphlet
of the day, long since forgotten, was written by George (Sa-
vile) Marquis of Halifax.
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SIR,
CLXXXI.
Queen of Portugal brought to bed.-Death of Lord Spencer.
-Various news.-Queen and Princess Anne reported to
be with child.
London, Sept. 13th, 1688.
THE Queen-dowager had news out of
Portugal, that the Queen is brought to bed of
a Prince,* to the great joy of every body ex-
cept the Infanta, who now will scarce have
those great matches that were once offered her,
and may not improbably be doomed to see
her beauty and youth wither within the walls
of a cloister.
On the 6th inst. died at Paris the Lord Spen-
cer, eldest son of the Earl of Sunderland, Lord
President and Principal Secretary of State,
after a long and painful fit of sickness; the
first cause whereof is said to have been a wound
Mary Elizabeth, daughter of the Elector Palatine, and
wife of Peter II. The son of which she had been just
brought to bed, died before the conclusion of the year 1688.
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given him some years ago by a gentleman at
Bury in Suffolk.
The D. of Lorraine is said to be very far
advanced in the treaty with the Turks, who,
seeing Fate (whom they trust much in) and
Victory bent against them, will comply with
any terms that are not very dishonourable and
ruinous.
We cannot yet hear any farther particulars
of the taking of Belgrade, than that it was by
storm, and not by capitulation; Yeghen Pacha
having sworn by the beard of Mahomet, that,
if they surrendered it, he would destroy all
those the Elector should spare. The Elector
of Bavaria is slightly wounded; Count Sta-
remberg, and some other of the briskest men,
are killed.
It is again confirmed to us that Dr. Hough
and the ejected Fellows of Magdalen College
did present one Doctor Bayly, one of their own
Fellows, to a living in the College gift, and that
the person presented by Bishop Gifford and the
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present Fellows was rejected by the Bishop of
Glocester.*
Some will needs pretend there is not any
truth in what the Weekly Occurrencer writes,
viz. that the Dissenters had offered to lend his
Majesty a considerable sum of money. They
allege that their practice in past times makes
it now hard of belief, and very improbable;
but the case is altered.
Another story there runs, how that a noble
Peer, lately reconciled to the Church of Rome,
would have borrowed a sum of 10,000l. of a cer-
tain rich eminent lawyer, some days ago. The
writings were said to be drawn, and all things
agreed; but the lawyer happening to under-
stand the Lord was reconciled, flew off again,
-
* Dr. Robert Frampton. He was deprived after the Re-
volution, for refusing to take the oaths. The living in ques-
tion was in his diocese. Gifford, as has been before stated,
was the Roman Catholic head of Magdalen College appointed
by James after the death of Parker.
↑ I cannot make out who this peer was, unless Lord Sun-
derland, who had lately changed his religion, and who, from
his extravagant habits, was always in want of money.
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for that he could not take the security of one
that had by the law incurred the penalty of his
circumstances, and had no pardon for it.
The Queen is said to be with child again,
and so also the Princess of Denmark.
The late Lord Mayor was buried the last
night.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
SIR,
CLXXXII.
Memorials of French and English Envoys in Holland.
London, Sept. 14th, 1688.
THOUGH the present conjuncture affords
more than ordinary variety of news from abroad,
yet the eyes and ears of all being fixed most
upon the preparations now a-making in Hol-
land, I will gratify the reader with the best
account I have from the place, which is in two
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Memorials given in to the States-General by
the French Ambassador and one of the Eng-
*
lish Envoys.
MY LORDS,
The sincere desire which the King my
master has to maintain the peace of Europe,
will not suffer him to see the great preparations
which your Lordships make by sea and land
without taking those measures which the pru-
dence that accompanies all his actions inspires
him with, for the preventing those mischiefs
which these warlike preparations must draw
after them.
And though the King is persuaded of the
wisdom of your councils, and that it cannot
be thought that a Republic can be so easily
disposed to take arms, and to kindle a war that
must be fatal to all Christendom, yet his Ma-
jesty cannot believe your Lordships will be at
* Burnet observes, in speaking of the Dutch preparations,
"France took the alarm first, and gave it to the Court of
England."
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that charge within and without your provinces,
that they would list soldiers and invite
foreign troops, that they would equip so great
a fleet so late in the year, and make such other
great preparations, but that they have some
design projected that is suitable to so vast an
expense.
These, and other circumstances, make the
King my master believe that this arming is
designed against England; wherefore he has
commanded me to declare to you, that the ties
of friendship and allegiance with the King of
Great Britain, will not only oblige him to suc-
cour him, but to look upon the first act of hos-
tility which your troops or ships shall do
against the King of England, as a manifest
breach of the peace, and an open rupture
against his own Crown.
I leave your Lordships to consider hereof,
and of the consequences such an attempt may
have; his Majesty having not ordered me to
declare this to you, but out of that real desire
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he hath to prevent any thing which may dis-
turb the peace of Europe.
Given at the Hague, the 9th of Sept. 1688.
Signed,
COUNT D'AVAUX.*
MY LORDS,
The underwritten Ambassador has re-
ceived orders from his King to tell your Lord-
ships that, as he is informed of the motions of
* John Anthony de Mesmes, Count d'Avaux, was em-
ployed in various embassies during the reign of Lewis the
Fourteenth. He died in 1709. St. Simon gives the follow-
ing account of him." The Count d'Avaux was one of the
plenipotentiaries at Nimeguen, where, like a true courtier as
he was, he attached himself to Croissy, his colleague, the bro-
ther of Colbert. Some time after the peace of Nimeguen,
D'Avaux was Ambassador in Holland. The name he bore
was of great use to him in the situations he filled, and per-
suaded him that he was as capable of filling them as his
uncle. It must, however, be allowed, that he was possessed
of talents, of address, of the art of insinuation, of good tem-
per, and that, in fact, he was as able a man as his uncle. He
was always well informed upon all political matters. He ac-
quired the friendship and the consideration of the people in
Holland to a very singular degree."
+ Claude de Mesmes, Count d'Avaux.
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troops upon the frontiers of Cologne, in opposi-
tion to the Cardinal of Furstemberg and that
Chapter, so his Majesty is resolved to main-
tain the Cardinal in their rights and privileges
against all those that would disturb them there-
in his Majesty assuring himself that those
that love the preservation of the public peace,
will do no hostile act against the said Cardi-
nal and Chapter, nor against any place or
part of that Electorate, the government and
administration whereof belongs to them.
Made at the Hague, Sept. 8th, 1688.
Signed,
COUNT D'AVAUX.
MY LORDS,
The great and surprising preparations
of war which your Lordships make by land
and sea, in a season when all operations of
war, especially by sea, usually cease, give just
occasion of surprise and alarm to all Europe,
and oblige the King my master, (who, since
his coming to the Crown, has had nothing
dearer to him than the keeping the general
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peace, and a good correspondence with this
State,) to order me, the Marquis d'Albyville,
his Envoy-extraordinary with your Lordships,
to require from them, upon what design the
same are made. His Majesty, as being their
ancient ally and confederate, thinks himself in
the right to demand such a declaration, which
he hoped to have had from their own Ambas-
sador; but as he sees the devoir of alliance
and confederation is delayed, and that your
Lordships go on still to arm so powerfully
without telling him the least thereof, his Ma-
jesty finds himself obliged to increase his fleet,
and to put himself into a condition to main-
tain the peace of Christendom.
Hague, the 8th of Sept. 1688.
Signed,
D'ALBYVILLE.
What answer will be given upon these
three memorials time must tell us, when the
States meet next week.
Belgrade holds out still, though the Elec-
tor of Bavaria spares no powder. The Duke* is
*
Of Lorraine.
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thought to be gone down to treat of peace,
rather than to fight: some of the conditions
proposed our next will give an account of.
Sir John Shorter, Lord Mayor, died this
morning, and Sir Robert Viner some days
since.
(No address on this Letter.)
SIR,
CLXXXIII.
London, Sept. 15th, 1688.
By the next Dutch post we may expect
the answers of the States-General to the three
Memorials given in at the Hague by the Eng-
lish and French Ministers there, touching the
Dutch preparations. In the mean while, that
newly arrived tells us that the Prince of Orange
has been at Minden, a town in Westphalia be-
longing to the Elector of Brandenburgh, and is
said to have been met by that Elector and some
of the German Princes, as well as by the Gene-
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ral Schomberg✶ and Prince Waldeck ;† some
adding that he is declared Generalissimo of the
Confederate forces upon the Rhine.
The armies to be now encamped are to lie
in three several places: the Dutch, which are
about 22,000, upon the heath of Nimeguen;
the Brandenburghers, which are about 20 or
16,000, in the land of Cleves; and the Ger-
man auxiliaries, which will make about 20 or
25,000 men, at or near Dusseldorf, beyond the
Rhine, within six hours of Cologne.
We hear no more of the Dutch fleet, only
that they sail before their own coast, and that
they still are fitting out more ships to be sent
out to sea.
The Dutch Ambassador arrived on Wednes-
day, and went straight to Court, where, no
doubt, he hath ere this given his Majesty some
account of his Masters arming in Holland.
1
* Afterwards Duke of Schomberg. Killed at the battle
of the Boyne.
+ Christian Lewis, Prince of Waldeck. A general of con-
siderable ability. He was a Field-marshal in the service of
the Emperor of Germany. He died December 21st, 1706.
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wher
At Portsmouth there happened some differ-
ence between the Duke of Berwick, whose re-
giment is there in garrison, and the captains
and officers of the same. The occasion was
this, that the Duke wanted some men to re-
cruit his said regiment. But Colonel Mackilli-
cott, who lately raised a regiment in Ireland,
brought over forty or fifty above his number.
These men were ordered to be received in the
Duke of Berwick's regiment, which the Lieu-
tenant-colonel (Mr. Beaumont) and five or six
of the Captains refused; alleging they were
raw undisciplined Irishmen, and that, if the re-
giment was to be recruited with raw men, they
had all of them credit enough to raise English-
men; and all of them signed a paper to that ef-
fect; which being sent to the King, his Majesty
ordered them to be fetched in custody by a
party of horse, and they are to be tried on Mon-
day at a council of war. The Captains' names
I know not; one is Captain Paston, brother to
Lord Yarmouth,* another is called Cook, &c.
S
* William (Paston) second and last Earl of Yarmouth of
that family.
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The Queen-dowager thinks of going to live
retiredly, and to receive no visits but from the
Royal family.
We do not hear that the writs for Parlia-
ment are quite ready, but that strong interests
are a-making in several parts of England and
Wales.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
At Dublin.
Ireland,
SIR,
CLXXXIV.
Indian News.-Canvassing for Elections in different places.-
Turkish and German News.
London, Sept. 15th, 1688.
Nagtatalog
WE are told from Scotland, that the
skirmishes which lately happened in the High-
lands, between the two families, or clans, of the
Macdonnels and the Mackintoshes, are now
appeased by some of the forces of that kingdom,
but that several have been killed on both sides.
The first difference began about taking posses-
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sion of certain lands which were decreed to the
one in prejudice of the other.
The Lord Dartmouth is gone down the River
to Chatham, and it is said his Majesty may
be there about Tuesday next.
The Lord Chancellor hath been in town
since Wednesday; the Parliament writs aré
all ready, and will be sealed and delivered out
next Tuesday.
The Royal African Company have lately a
dividend of ten guineas per cent. We do not
hear that the East India Company is about
making any: Dr. St. Johns, who complains of
their behaviour in India, hath petitioned his
Majesty against them, and the Company are to
give in their answer to it.
We hear of some other Englishmen that are
arrived lately from the East Indies, who sing
to the same tune with Dr. St. Johns; and,
among other particulars, say, that there were
several Englishmen lately murdered by the
King of Siam's subjects, who were provoked to
it by the ill-usage of some of our Company in
those parts.
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Two nights ago, the Lord Dover's house in
Albemarle Buildings was robbed, and a great
quantity of plate taken.
We hear of great canvassings that are already
in many counties and corporations; several
new charters are now a-passing the Great Seals,
in order to qualify those corporations the
better to elect members for the ensuing Par-
liament.
Our Vienna letters newly arrived, confirm to
us the taking of Belgrade by storm, after a
vigorous defence; it having cost the Germans
a great many brave men in the three repulses
they met with in their general assault; among
whom, of most note, are the Count of Scherf-
femberg, Count Emanuel of Furstemberg, and
a Count Starremberg, son of the Mareschal-de-
camp of the same name, Governor of Vienna.
This conquest is of the highest importance; it
not only ascertains the reduction of all the
strong places remaining in the Turks' hands;
not only gives a passage into Servia and Misnia,
Bulgaria and Romania; but has left nothing
capable of stopping the Emperor himself, if he
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pleases, from going to take a taste of the Ser-
rail at Constantinople.
The same letters advise us, that the Duke of
Lorraine had been in the camp before Bel-
grade; that he had drawn thence a great body
of horse, and was gone to give chace to Yeghen
Pacha's poor Mussulmen. His Highness was
to be joined by Count Dunewaldt and Prince
L. of Baden,* who, besides the advantages for-
merly mentioned, has had a new victory over
the Turks, killing 5000 upon the spot, tak-
ing 2000 prisoners, with all their baggage and
cannon.
Lower Germany seems full of presage of an
ensuing rupture. For many ages have there
not been known so many going and coming,
* Lewis William, Prince and Margrave of Baden, whose
bravery and successes against the Turks have placed his name
very high among those of great captains. He was peculiarly
celebrated for his manner of throwing up and defending in-
trenchments; of which, perhaps, his chef-d'œuvre was the fa-
mous lines of Stolhofen. He died, worn out with fatigues,
at the age of fifty-two, January 4th, 1707; having made
twenty-six campaigns, commanded at twenty-five sieges, and
fought thirteen battles, in most of which he was successful.
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nor so great a correspondence and harmony, as
is seen at this day between the Electors and
other Princes of the Empire and their allies.
The Elector of Brandenburgh passed through
Hanover in his way to Minden, where he hath
conferred with the Elector of Saxony, the
Dukes of Brunswick, and Lunenbourg, the
Prince of Orange, the Landgrave of Hesse-
Cassel, and some other Princes, as also with
the Bishop of Munster at Cloppenburg: since
which conferences, several of the Confederate
troops are on their march; those of Zell and
Wolfenbuttel began theirs on the 2d of Sep-
tember; and we also expect that our next
Northern couriers should bring us notice of the
Swedish fleet being put to sea.*
Our last Paris letters inform us, that they
take the war there to be infallible, and that it
will be the fiercest that has been in that King's
reign, as well as of some continuance; they
*The Princes mentioned in the foregoing paragraph were
mostly those who had agreed to assist the Prince of Orange
in his designs with regard to England.
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looking upon it as a war of religion, policy,
and state.
Our Holland mails are wanting.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
CLXXXV.
Dutch fleet at sea.-Cabinet Council holding, and the King
present at it.-State of Duke of Berwick's regiment.
London, Sept. 18th, 1688.
DEAR SIR,
YESTERDAY I met with Roguy Rene,
who indeed acknowledges the debt for due,
but pleads poverty; saith he had 757. deduct-
ed by way of mistake that he had not been
at his troop after the first signing his com-
mission so soon as really he was, and Dom.
Sheldon was in the same condition, and got it:
he hath petitions, references, and reports there-
upon, and it only stuck in the briars for want
of due care and managery. This is his story,
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and he says Jack Price knows it, to whom he
owes likewise ten pounds. He offers this title
in order to reimburse you both. Pray speak
with Price about it; and if it is feasible, I
will transmit you what he has to show for it:
any other way I despair of doing good of him.
I know you will not fail of doing what you
may with Colonel Sarsefeild and Aunt Eustace.
We are in great expectations still what will
be the consequence of these great preparations
of the Dutch: the French fleet and ours joined
are not able to cope with them, and we want
six thousand seamen of our complement; that
is, to make thirty-eight ships for fight, and
twelve fire-ships. The French have besieged
Philipsburgh, which is the news to-night.
The Circles of Germany have put 10,000 men
into Cologne, and the Pope's declaration is
in favour of the French King's interest for
the Cardinal of Furstenberg. The Dutch are
seventy-six sail at sea, waiting hourly for their
Northern fishers, to take the men, and then
the design to be put in execution! The King
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said yesterday, it was either an invasion upon
France or us; but no man doubts upon which
side the scale will fall. There are 10,000 lands-
men on board, and accoutrements for 4000
horse. None can imagine, that does not see,
how the general expectation is. I am now in
Lord Sunderland's office, where a Cabinet Coun-
cil is holding, the King in it; came from Wind-
sor this evening on purpose, goes to-morrow
to Chatham, then to Portsmouth, where mat-
ters are in mighty disorder: the subalterns,
since Beaumont &c.'s cashiering, generally laid
down, and many soldiers run away. Ben
Fletcher has a company of one of those cash-
iered captains. The Prince of Orange says he
will be aboard the fleet the 25th, our style.
They expect 6000 Swedes aboard them. I dare
not say what the Declaration consists of, but
it is the height of what can be imagined. The
Prince and Princess are come from Tunbridge,
and the Household removes from Windsor
wholly on Thursday. I expect few days
more of quiet, but am ready and determined.
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Tho. Chudleigh and Constable are gone to
be Carthusians.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary of His
Majesty's Revenue in Ireland,
Ireland.
At Dublin.·
SIR,
CLXXXVI.
Bet between the Elector of Bavaria and Duke of Mantua.-
Other Foreign news.-Movements of the Court, &c.
London, Sept. 18th, 1688.
SINCE our last we have these farther
particulars of the taking of Belgrade :-That
the Duke of Bavaria had laid a wager of
10,000 pistoles with the Duke of Mantua,* that
the place would be taken by such a day, and
had his wager; that the Duke of Lorraine
* Ferdinand Charles IV. Duke of Mantua, a foolish and
profligate prince. He served in the Imperial armies, but
without distinction, and even under considerable suspicions.
with regard to the common merit of courage. He died July
5th, 1708; it is said of poison, administered to him by a lady
he was in love with.
VOL. II.
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had been in the camp, and had dined (but, by
agreement, was to stay no longer), and did not
imagine the Elector would have given the as-
sault so soon, which was another reason caused
the Elector to make the greater haste; that there
were 9 or 10,000 Turks killed, and about 1200
Christians; there were three or four of the chief
officers killed; and that the Elector had a slight
glance of an arrow upon his right cheek.
Cardinal Furstemberg would not have been
sorry the arrow had aimed better; for by that
means he might have been freed of his rival at
Cologne, where the faggot seems ready to kin-
dle; the troops on both sides having taken their
several stations till the Conclave at Rome gives
the word of command, that is, till the Pope
approves of one or other of the competitors.
Some letters thence say the Pope has found
out nullities in the elections on both sides; if
so, that part of the world may live in peace a
little longer, and the parties go to a new elec-
tion, which the Cardinal will scarce be persuad-
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ed to, when he has eleven points of the law
already on his side.
The French intend three armies of 40,000
each, to be commanded by the King, Dauphin,
and Monsieur,* that King being inclined to give
the world one instance more of his courage,
and loth to lose so fair an opportunity as the
making head against the united strength of
the whole Empire.
If it be true that the French have already
passed the Rhine, and that Cologne has re-
nounced all neutrality, and is taking in a
German garrison, we may conclude it will not
be long ere it come to blows; the Allies being
but four hours from them.
* Philip of France, Duke of Orleans, only brother of
Lewis the Fourteenth; a weak, profligate, and effeminate
prince, of whom his second wife, in her Memoirs, has left us
some strange and very discreditable stories. He was, how-
ever, personally brave, much more so than his elder brother.
When he was with the army, the soldiers used to say of him,
"Monsieur craint plus que le soleil ne le hale, qu'il ne craint
la poudre et le feu des mousquets."
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The Dutch fleet is said, and believed by
most people, to be between Dunkirk and
England, about sixty or seventy sail strong,
augmented by several Swedes men-of-war, but
of this there is no certainty.
His Majesty goes down to Chatham to-mor-
row morning, and stays about three days. The
Queen and Court remove from Windsor on
Thursday, it having been resolved so on last
Sunday night very unexpectedly.
There is an account from Portsmouth that
some more officers of the D. of Berwick's re-
giment have laid down their commissions upon
the same account with the other officers, that
were lately cashiered; and some will have it
that several of the common soldiers run away
and follow their officers, though they venture
hanging by it.
Wasely, that tossed the Mayor of Scarbo-
rough in a blanket, is fled into Holland.
The D. of Ormond is chosen one of the
Governors of the Charter-house, so that he
had the good luck to succeed in all his grand-
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father's places, except the Stewardship of Win-
chester.
Last Sunday night Sir Robert Vyner was
buried in St. Mary Woolnoth church, in Lom-
bard-street.
Yesterday a regiment filed off from Tower-
hill, and is said to be marched for Portsmouth.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
SIR,
CLXXXVII.
Arrival of the Court.-Dutch Fleet on the coast of Holland.—
Case of Mr. Skelton.-Foreign news.
London, September 20th, 1688.
ON Monday night the Princess of Den-
mark came to Whitehall from Tunbridge, and
on Tuesday came the King from Windsor, and
this day her Majesty the Queen and Prince of
Wales are expected.
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Yesterday his Majesty went down the River
to Chatham to view the ships that are there
fitting out, which we are told are five, and
three fire-ships, to be added to the fleet.
We hear no more of the Dutch fleet or of
its design our last letters of the 24th, left it
upon the coast of Holland, cruising before the
Maes: the report of its appearing upon our
coast was a mistake, raised by our timorous
oyster or herring-women, who are concerned
for their trade.
On Tuesday night there was a Council held
at Whitehall, where the case of Mr. Skelton,*
* "The French Ambassador at the Hague in a Memorial
told the States, that his Master understood their design was
against England; and in that case he signified to them, that
there was such a strict alliance between him and the King of
England, that he would look on every thing done against
England, as an invasion of his own crown. This put the
King of England and his Ministers much out of countenance;
for, upon some surmises of alliance with France, they had
very positively denied there was any such thing. Albeville
did continue to deny it at the Hague, even after the Memorial
was put in. The King did likewise deny it to the Dutch
Ambassador at London; and the blame of the putting it into
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his Majesty's Envoy at Paris, was taken into
consideration: he had landed at Deal but the
day before, and after Council on Tuesday, he
was sent prisoner to the Tower. What his
crime is we yet know not, but are told it is
some false step he made to the Court of France,
by meddling with what he had no instructions
for, and by exceeding his commission; the
farther particulars whereof you may have here-
after.
The Dauphin is marched out of Paris with
a numerous train of French nobility, and is
gone towards Germany to command the King's
army there, and to enter himself in the theatre
the Memorial was cast on Skelton, the King's Envoy at Paris,
who was disowned in it, and upon his coming over, was put
into the Tower for it. This was a short disgrace, for he was
soon after made Lieutenant of the Tower. His rash folly
might have procured the order from the Court of France to
own this alliance. He thought it would terrify the States;
and so he pressed this officiously, which they easily granted.
That related only to their owning it in so public a manner;
but this did clearly prove that such an alliance was made."
This is Burnet's account of the transaction. For the Memo-
rial alluded to, see Letter CLXXX.
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of war by besieging Philipsburgh, or some
other considerable place.
Cologne hath actually received a German gar-
rison into it. Notwithstanding all the offers
and endeavours of the French, they are said
to have a design of camping some thousands
of men on the other side of the Rhine, over
against Cologne, to observe the motions of the
Allies; so that city will be in danger of being
bombarded with great ease.
Mareschal Schomberg is to command the
Confederate troops upon the Rhine.
The French have clapped up several Ger-
mans in the Bastile at Paris, by way of retor-
tion,* for that the Emperor refused passage to
several French that were at Vienna.
Gy
The Pope is to have received the reply of
the Congregation deputed to examine the elec-
tion at Cologne, among whom there were not
above two or three of seventeen for the Car-
dinal of Furstemberg. The Pope has not yet
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issued out his Bull or Brevet of Confirmation,
though the Germans press for it.
The Parliament writs were delivered yes-
terday.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
SIR,
CLXXXVIII.
The King sends for the Bishops.-Changes talked of.-Dutch
Fleet. Successes of the French.
London, Sept. 21st, 1688.
IT pleaseth his Majesty to give every day
some mark or other of his gracious intention to
preserve the Church of England as established,
and thinks fit to convince the Bishops of it in
the first place; and in order to that, he has
sent for several of them to come up to Court.
Some already have attended on his Majesty, as
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the Lord Bishop of Ely* did last night, and
all have been dismissed very well satisfied.
The Archbishop and Bishop of London are ex-
pected to-day or to-morrow.
As for what the Coffee-mant writes, that
the Earl of Rochester had kissed the King's
hand on Sunday, it is only a piece of his own
invention, the said noble Lord having appeared
always at Court.
g
Several alterations in the present state of
things are commonly talked of; as the restitu-
tion of Magdalen College fellows, the supersed-
ing of the Ecclesiastical Commission, &c. which
a few days will tell us farther of.‡
* Thomas Watson, Bishop of Ely; deprived in 1699 for
simony and other offences.
+ This means the news-writer of the coffee-houses-the
places, at this time, the most frequented by those who sought
after news.
‡ "The King began now, though fatally too late, to be
sensible of his error in carrying matters to so enormous a
length at the instigation of Popish councils; and now re-
stored several justices of the peace in most counties, as also
the old charters all England over. He now quits his hold of
the Bishop of London, does justice to Magdalen College, and
begins again to court the Church of England."-Reresby's
Memoirs.
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Five-and-twenty companies are to be raised
to be added to the several regiments; we do
not hear who the new officers are for the other
new levies. Marquess de Miremont (the Earl
of Feversham's nephew, and a Protestant,) is
to be one.
We hear no more of the Dutch fleet, and
have no certain account of the preparations or
numbers that it hath, but are well assured that
not a Swedish ship or man are joined to it,
the Swedish fleet having only showed their
sails in the air, and put back again into Calmer
Sondt.
We have been in some apprehension as if
the Dutch fleet designed their force against
England. There are letters come from France
which say, that the Court begins now to be
sensible it is aimed against them, and as a di-
version to them while they are disputing by
land upon the Rhine.
The French King hath not yet resolved
whether he may venture in person against
Germany. But as the Dauphin is to open
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the trenches this day before Philipsburgh,* and
thereby all the ties and treaties (which have
kept all parties hitherto in peace) will be dis-
solved so it is probable the P. of Orange will
so order his first blow as to keep time with
the French; but as the season is advanced,
and the moon in its strength, so a very few
days will reveal this mystery, and tell us
whether Great Britain, or little Bretagne be
levelled against.
Several Dutch ships are arrested in France.
The French are said to have taken Keysers-
Lauteren in the Palatinate, and to have turned
out the Pope's vice-legate from Avignon ;† and
that they are now marching to settle the Duke
* The Dauphin had under him the Marshal de Duras
to command the troops, and the celebrated Vauban to direct
the siege. Philipsburgh, ill-defended by Stahremberg, capi-
tulated on the 29th of October.
+ Boufflers took Keyserlauter on the 20th of September.
Lewis had seized upon Avignon as a reprisal upon the Pope,
who had excommunicated his ambassador at Rome, the Mar-
quis de Lavardin, on account of the quarrel with regard to
the Franchises.
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of Parma in his Dukedoms of Castro and
Roncilione.
The French Advocate-general has made
* The Duke of Parma at this time was Ranuccio II. the
son of Duke Odoard. It does not appear that the French
Government took any decided steps at this time to regain
for the Duke his Duchy of Castro and County of Ronciglione,
though they threatened a good deal upon the subject. They
had been wrested from him by Pope Innocent X. in conse-
quence of the assassination of the Bishop of Castro, by com-
mand of the Duke's minister. This happened in 1649. In
1660, Cardinal Mazarin, then Prime Minister of France, be-
sought the Pope Alexander VII. to restore to the Duke of
Parma these territories. But Alexander, who hated the Car-
dinal and his master, and besides probably preferred keeping
Castro and Ronciglione in his own hands, instead of com-
plying with the request, declared in full Consistory the do-
mains in question reunited in perpetuity to the Apostolic
Chamber. After this, the Duke was never able to regain pos-
session of them.
+ Dionysius Talon." He proposed the convocation of a
Council; and because the Pope had refused the Bulls, and by
that means left thirty-five cathedrals in France destitute of
pastors, he advised the re-establishment of the ancient usages,
and the returning to the Pragmatic Sanction for the regulation
of Ecclesiastical affairs, the Pope having violated the Concor-
dat."-The President Henault's "Abrégé Chronologique de
l'Histoire de France."
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another speech against the conduct of the Pope,
by way of appeal to the next Council legally
called.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
CLXXXIX.
Parliament returned.-Fears of the Ministers, &c.
London, Sept. 22nd, 1688.
DEAR MR. ELLIS,
I AM just arrived here from Tunbridge,
where the journey has been very pleasant, but
especially because it has perfectly recovered
my Cousin Cook, who with all imaginable
respect presents his humble service to you.
I begin now to long to know my doom,
which I presume is over by this time.
sure you, had the place been of much more
value, I must have run the hazard of it for
my Cousin's sake, and therefore am the less
in pain for the success. Mr. Cullyford has
I as-
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promised me to write a letter of thanks to
you for your care of me in my absence, and
likewise to give you his acknowledgments
for your protection and good counsel to Cod-
dan, which business, to tell you the truth,
vexeth him to the very soul. I spent the
whole day with him yesterday, where we
drank your health most heartily. He has been
in Dorsetshire, and has secured his election;
but must make a second journey, if the Parlia-
ment goes on, which at present is a doubt,
the writs being stopped, though sealed the 18th.
Our army continues stubborn, and will not
mix with the Irish. The prospect of a Parlia-
ment frights our grand Ministers, and makes
them disown their hot counsels; and it is be-
lieved the Church of England will be highly
caressed out of hand. The noise of the
French and Dutch landing, which has fright-
ed us so much of late, is now over; the
French being engaged in a war which per-
haps will out-live him. But what do I trouble
myself with public news, when every post
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brings so many gazettes à la main? Dear Sir,
I hope this will find you preparing for Lon-
don, and that your next will direct me in what
part of the world I shall be so happy to see
you, for I long for an opportunity to let you
know, by word of mouth, how much I am.
your humble servant,
FRANCIS CAVE.
My duty to Mr. Strong. The inclosed is
from the countryman who has the care of
his house at Tunbridge. My service to all
friends; and pray let Mr. Tayler know I want
an answer to my last.
To Mr. John
at the Custo
in D...
* The address to this letter is thus torn off in the original.
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CXC.
SIR,
King's Declaration.-Privy Councillors absent.-Various
rumours.
London, Sept. 22d, 1688.
YESTERDAY, his Majesty was graciously
pleased to give one farther instance of his royal
care and concern for his people, by publishing
another Declaration in Council, which is in the
press, and whereof the heads are :
1st. That the Parliament shall sit in No-
vember, though artifices are used to make the
world believe the contrary.
2d. That as his Majesty purposeth a legal
establishment of universal Liberty of Con-
science, so he will preserve inviolably the Church
of England.
3d. That the several Acts of Uniformity
shall be confirmed in all their clauses, except
those that inflict penalties.
4th. That his Majesty is willing that Ro-
man Catholics remain incapable of being mem-
VOL. II.
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bers of the House of Commons, that they may
engross no share of the legislative power.
5th. His Majesty will do any thing else
that becomes a King, that is careful of the
safety and advantages of his subjects; and ex-
horts them to make choice of such Represen-
tatives as are of abilities and temper becoming
such a trust.
6th. All persons concerned to see the ex-
ecution of any writs or precepts for elections,
are to cause due publication thereof, that the
members chosen be fairly returned, according
to the true merits of their choice.
Ma
In opposition to his Majesty's Royal Decla-
ration and intention, some coffee-house scrib-
blers that skulk within the rules of Gray's Inn
and Alsatia,* publish that the writs for the Par-
liament are stopped: which is a piece of false-
hood, such as they deal in; for the writs were
actually delivered out to the Lords Lieute-
nants on Thursday last.
* The district of Whitefriars near the Temple, and the
great resort of sharpers, and “ of men who lived by their
wits," as was then the phrase.
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Another of their shams is that Mr. Penne*
is made Comptroller of Excise arising from tea
and coffee: which is also false, though one might
think they might be better informed in matters
relating to their own trade.
We have also another piece of these coffee-
men's news, which is, that the Dutch Ambas-
sador has lately put in a brisk Memorial to
his Majesty of which there is no certainty, as
I am credibly informed.
It was expected that several Lords would
have yesterday appeared in Council, which did
not, as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Marquis
of Halifax, etc. and that some new Privy Coun-
cillors would have been made, as the Bishops
of Winchester† and Ely: the first having had
* William Penn, the Quaker.
+ Dr. Peter Mews, translated in 1684 from the Bishopric
of Bath and Wells. "He had been a Captain during the
wars, and had been Middleton's Secretary, when he was
sent to command the Insurrection that the Highlanders of
Scotland made for the King in fifty-three. After that he
came into orders: And though he knew very little of Divinity,
or of any other learning, and was weak to a childish degree,
P 2
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the honour to be long with the King in his
closet, yesterday morning.*
Mr. Skelton is still in the Tower, and is in
more danger than was at first apprehended.
We hear no farther of the Dutch fleet.
Captain Ousely is said to be come to town to
give his reasons for tossing the Mayor of Scar-
borough in a blanket. As a part of his plea,
he has brought with him a collection of articles
yet obsequiousness and zeal raised him through several steps
to this great see."-Burnet.
* The vacillations of the King backwards and forwards,
as either his fears of the Dutch or his bigotry predominated,
were most injurious to him at this time, and naturally gave
occasion to the contradictory reports which are mentioned in
this letter. As a proof of his unsettled will, the following
passages of Lord Clarendon's Diary are curious. "Sept.
24th (1688,) I visited my Lord Chancellor, who told me
that on Saturday last the King was resolved.to call all the
peers together, who were in and about the town, to consult
with them upon the present state of affairs; that he would set
all things upon the foot they were at his coming to the Crown ;
that in order thereto, his Majesty had commanded him to
restore all the old honest Aldermen of the city, who had been
turned out.' Sept. 27th. I went to the Chancellor's; he
told me all was nought; some rogues had changed the King's
mind; that the Virgin Mary was to do all."
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213
against the said Mayor, and the attestations of
many gentlemen of note.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
At Dublin.
Ireland,
SIR,
CXCI.
News-writer cudgelled.-General Pardon. - Foreign news.
-City Address to the King.-Duke of Albemarle.
London, Sept. 25th, 1688.
news.
IN the last were mentioned some coffee-
house news-writers who make it their business
to poison the town and country with their false
One of them has since been met with
by a gentleman whom he had scandalized in his
newspaper, and was lustily convinced by cudgel
argument, in the presence of many good wit-
nesses, that he was in the wrong. Several
others wait an opportunity to thresh his jacket
in the same manner, which is the least could be
expected by people that venture so far beyond
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their province, in matters too which require so
much niceness, penetration, and judgment.
The seven officers of the Duke of Berwick's
regiment that delivered up their commissions
were dismissed on Saturday, without being
tried by a Court-martial.
His Majesty being desirous to heal the faults
as well as animosities of his subjects, by all the
ways he can, is graciously pleased to grant
another general pardon for his subjects, some
few of the most notorious excepted; which is
now a-preparing.
Our last French letters brought two large
Declarations of that King's; the one is against
the Pope, wherein he blames his ill conduct
against the Crown of France, and threatens to
send his troops into Italy to take possession of
Castro, Roncilione, and Avignon, till the Duke
of Parma be restored and satisfied in virtue of
the Treaty of Pisa, whereof the French King
is guarand. The other paper is against the
Emperor and Empire, Elector Palatine and
others,” which he calls "his reason for retaking
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up of arms, and for persuading all Christendom
of the sincerity of his intentions to preserve the
general peace.
"In the first paper it is said that the Pope's
conduct has given occasion to the boldness of
the Prince of Orange to form a design of in-
vading England, of stirring the English sub-
jects to a revolt, and of treating the birth of
the Prince of Wales as supposititious, &c."
What effect, or what answer, these Declara-
tions may have, time must tell us.
The Dutch letters say that they were much
divided there between surprise and joy at his
Majesty's Declaration to the Dutch Ambas-
sador here, viz. that his Majesty had no alli-
ance with France, whatever the French Am-
bassador's Memorial said to the contrary, and
that he was resolved to maintain the public
peace only, and not to engage in any war.
"'*
* "This Declaration was much censured, both for the mat-
ter and for the style. It had not the air of greatness which
became crowned heads. The Duchess of Orleans' pretensions
to old furniture was a strange rise to a war," &c.-Burnet.
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His Majesty has thought fit to declare, he
thought it necessary at this time to raise some
few more forces, horse and foot, for the recruit-
ing of his army.
Yesterday the Lord Mayor and Aldermen
waited on the King and Queen to pay their
duty upon their Majesties' return from Wind-
sor. His Majesty, in his gracious return to the
compliment, took notice of the report as if
the Dutch intended to attempt upon England,
and bid them not be concerned; that he
would stand for them, as his Majesty hoped
they would stand for him; and as he had often
ventured his person heretofore in defence of
the Monarchy, so would he go as far as any
body to do it still against any body that
should offer to disturb our quiet; or to that
effect; which renders all the men in the city
both hearty and unanimous.
Besides the taking of Negropont, we are
told that all the parts about, as well as the city
and Government of Damascus, are revolted.
Elector of Bavaria, as we said, won 10,000
ducats from the Duke of Mantua, and gave
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them to those that were most forward to fol-
low him up the walls of Belgrade.
The Turkish Ambassador is said to have
but half instructions for to conclude a peace.
The boors about Cologne attacked the Car-
dinal's* coach, but he happened not to be in it.
Two ships more are lately sent by the Ad-
venturers upon the Spanish wreck, to go on
where Sir John Narborough left. His Majes-
ty has given a new grant of that and other
wrecks for a year longer to the Duke of Albe-
marle, in consideration of his Grace's good ser-
vice, being said to have exceeded his predeces-
sors at Jamaica in good luck, as well as good
conduct; being, as we are informed, about dis-
covering a rich vein of silver in that plantation.
This being the Queen's birth-day was solemn-
ized with great joy, balls, ringing of bells, &c.
The King of Poland† is said again to be dead.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
* The Cardinal Furstemberg.
+ John Sobieski.-He lived till the 17th of June, 1696,
when he was carried off by an attack of apoplexy.
-
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Sept. 27th, 1688.
WE are told by express this morning,
that the Prince of Orange is to embark on
board his mighty fleet for England, to-morrow,
or on Monday next at farthest: this puts us
into great hurry and confusion, all preparing
for a brush;* and it is to be feared, his Majesty
(whom God preserve!) will venture his own
royal person. Many of our nobility are said
to be already with the Prince.
CXCII.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary for
the Revenue of Ireland,
At Dublin.
**
66
I pre-
C
Sept. 24th. I went to the King's levee; and met his
Majesty going to the Queen's side. He told me the Dutch
were now coming to invade England in good earnest.
sumed to ask if he really believed it? To which the King
replied with warmth, Do I see you, my Lord?' And then
he said that an express arrived the last night with an account
that two thousand men were already shipped off, and seven
• And now,
thousand more were marching to the sea-side.
my Lord,' said he, 'I shall see what the Church of Eng-
land-men will do.' I answered, And your Majesty will
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CXCIII.
Church of England more in favour than formerly.-Writs
for the Parliament stopped.-Private affairs.
Custom-house, London, 27th Sept., 1688.
HONEST MR. ELLIS,
AFTER I have begged pardon for my
long silence, which I do by this paper most
heartily, I could not omit acquainting you
that for certain my Lord Duke of Ormond
has now his grandfather's Garter: and the pub-
lic prints will show you that all the Deputy
Lieutenants, and Justices of the Peace, that
were lately laid aside, are ordered to be restored
again and things look with more favour to-
ward the Church of England than formerly.
All our great ministers' heads are full of the
public affairs, we having every day more and
more apprehensions of the Dutch and Prince
of Orange's landing a powerful army for this
kingdom, and having at the same time a great
see they will behave themselves like honest men; though they
have been somewhat severely used of late.'" Diary of Henry
Earl of Clarendon.
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fleet at sea. All preparations are a-making to
oppose them both at sea and land; and the
King has told the City he will meet them in
person at the head of his forces, as soon as he
hears of their landing. You may easily imagine
the confusion all good people are in. I pray
God preserve the King! I am just now told
the writs for election of the Parliament are by
order stopped or superseded in the Sheriffs'
hands, and that they will not meet at the pre-
fixed time. And so much I think I may ven-
ture to acquaint you, for you know it is out of
my post to write news.
I must not forget to thank you for all kind-
nesses, and amongst them, more particularly for
your friendship to poor Coddon, who I think
is persecuted most unchristianly by Mr. Strong,
and does not show him to be either so good a
man or so good a Christian as I took him to be;
but I hope now Mr. Dickinson is arrived with
you, he will see him have justice, which is all
I will ask of my friends for him, for, did I not
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know and believe him to be an honest man and
good officer, I would not open my lips for him.
I understood Mr. Strong has a design to bring
Desmaneeres in his place, and remove Coddon
to his; but I had much rather he should be
dismissed, if he cannot justify himself, than go
thither to reconcile, or qualify the gentleman's
unjust indignation. I have spoke and wrote to
Mr. Dickinson, and Mr. Trynder, and Plowden
for him; and old Welsh Ale has given me his
promise to serve him, which, between you and¸
me, I do not believe, but would, for a certain
reason, know how he does carry himself in this
matter. I have troubled you too much, and
therefore ask your pardon. My service to all
that are so kind to ask for me; among them, I
am sure Will. Smith will not forget me, there-
fore hearty service to him and his little woman,
and
poor Lord Longford. All friends here are
well; Frank Cave dined with me to-day, and
we drank your healths heartily; put in a word
in season in his favour, that his name be not
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left out of the book of life. I am, with un-
feigned respect,
Sir,
Your very affectionate,
SIR,
(No address on this letter.)
Faithful, humble Servant,
WILL. CULLIFORD.*
20
CXCIV.
State of the Fleet.-King's Proclamation.-The Bishops.-
Mayor of Scarborough's business.
London, Sept. 29th, 1688.
THE Lord Dartmouth has been to view
the condition of the fleet, and is come back
*Mr. Culliford had been one of the Commissioners of Irish
Revenue, and was now a Commissioner of Customs in Eng-
land. He was an adherent of Hyde Lord Rochester. There
is frequent allusion made to him in this Correspondence, and
also in the Letters of Henry Lord Clarendon.
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again, but is to go down this next week in
order to stay on board and command in chief
in this expedition against the Dutch.
The last expresses come from Holland say,
that the Prince of Orange was to embark on
board their fleet, either the latter end of this,
or beginning of next week; and some report as
if the Princess of Orange also was to come
along with them.
His Majesty last night in Council was
pleased to order a proclamation to be published
touching the intended invasion of the Dutch,
whereby he animates all his loving subjects to
behave themselves like true Englishmen, and
that they be neither daunted with Dutch
prowess, (for the sake of the reputation of
English courage,) nor suffer themselves to be
carried away with those specious pretexts and
insinuations which they intend to publish in
their Declaration, whensoever it be scattered
abroad. What ought to incite our courage
against them the more is, that they are said to
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have one thousand Saxon horse on board, as if
Old England were to be conquered a second
time by that nation.
The writs of Parliament are to be recall-
ed, and the elections to be put off, by rea-
son of this unforeseen incident of an inva-
sion.
His Majesty has ordered a body of instruc-
tions to be published for the regulating of the
Flag, and of the salutes due to his Majesty
at sea, the better to secure the rights of the
Crown, which our neighbours, and the enemies
of this kingdom, have so much envied, and so
oft invaded.
The Bishop of London could not be found,
being gone, it is thought, to his sisters in
Yorkshire; but his suspension is taken off.
The Archbishop was also indisposed, and could
not wait on the King; but about ten others of
the Bishops have attended his Majesty yester-
day, and having been a long time in his closet,
were dismissed very well satisfied, and one of
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the chief of them telling his friends that,
Omnia benè.*
The Dukes of Ormond and Berwick have
the Garters, and were invested therewith yes-
terday at a Chapter held on purpose at
Whitehall.
The Mayor of Scarborough, and Captain
Wasely, who tossed the other in a blanket,
were heard last night before the Council. The
Captain pleaded his Majesty's gracious general
* "Sept. 28th. Several of the Bishops are this morning
with the King. I was told he expressed himself very gra-
ciously to them; but spoke only in general terms, that it was
not now seasonable to enter into particular disputes; that
they should every day find more and more effects of his Ma-
jesty's kindness; that he had given order for restoring the
Bishop of London. The Archbishop was indisposed, and so
could not come over the water. The Bishops of London and
Bristol are not yet come to town, though both had been sent
for. As the Bishops came from the King, several people in
the rooms, as they passed, asked them how things went?
The Bishop of Winton, poor man! answered, Omnia bene.'
-Diary of Henry Earl of Clarendon. The Bishop of Win-
chester was a remarkably weak and foolish man.-See note
to the 190th Letter.
VOL. II.
=
Q
"
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pardon, which is in the press, and so both were
dismissed.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
At Dublin.
Ireland,
CXCV.
The King retraces his steps.-Rumours respecting the Dutch
fleet and great consternation in England.
London, Sept. 29th, 1688.
DEAR SIR,
I HAD yours of the 15th last night; was
sorry you stood in need of a secretary, but hope
that misfortune wears off. I doubt not but
you are very desirous to hear how matters go
here. I went this day sevennight to Cashio-
bury,* and designed to stay till I heard tidings
of the Dutch landing; but I thought an alarm
from my Lady Sunderland+ was enough, so
I returned on Thursday, found the King had
called our Bishops, and yesterday gave strong
* The seat of Lord Essex.
† Anne Digby, wife of Robert Earl of Sunderland.
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assurances of supporting the Church of Eng-
land; restored the Bishop of London, declared
for the re-admission of the secluded members
of Magdalen College, and that he would break
the Ecclesiastical Commission, and lay his dis-
pensing power to be determined by the arbitre-
ment of Parliament, which should immediately
be called, and the corporations restored to their
former tenure. These are strange things, but
like all to prove true. I believe your Earl
Tyrconnel is sent for this post, and Earl Gra-
nard made Chief Governor for the present, but
your friend Clarendon returns. His brother
Rochester will have our old Duke's* white
staff; the young one had the Garter yester-
day, and D. Berwick the other vacancy. The
Dutch cannot sail before next Friday, accord-
ing to the advices of last night, but I think
they will come sooner. Earl Shrewsbury† is
C
The Duke of Ormonde.
office of Lord Steward of the Household.
+ Lord Shrewsbury was now in Holland with the Prince
of Orange.
His Staff means that of the
Q 2
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thought in command there, but it is uncertain.
Most of our noblemen are out of town, which
looks odd. I am his Grace of Ormond's vo-
lunteer. Mr. Charles* came on Thursday from
travel, comes in for his snack in this bustle.
Abundance of commissions are out. We shall
face the enemy with 5000 horse and 20,000
foot; we think the Prince comes with no more
than 12,000 foot and 3000 German horse. I saw
Suffolk gentlemen Wednesday come up alarm-
ed: the Holland packet told them the Dutch
were seventy-six great men of war, and had
a hundred tenders, which seemed full of foot
and horse. I know his first provision was for
30,000 men's transportation. Mr. H. Sydney,
Admiral Herbert,† and Lord Mordaunt, are
generally thought in command. I think we
shall be in motion about the 10th of the follow-
ing month. The King is coining guineas for
the army to carry along; hath settled the train
* Charles Butler, younger brother of the second Duke of
Ormonde; created by King William, Earl of Arran. He was
at this time only seventeen years of age.
† Admiral Herbert commanded the Dutch fleet.
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of artillery; resolves to go in person, send the
Queen, young Prince, and Princess of Den-
mark, to Portsmouth, and take Prince George
with him. Dr. Wynn, I suppose, will send
you the Declaration. All is panic here.
You
will be sure to hear of me, till I am knocked
on the head.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary of His
Majesty's Revenue in Ireland,
Ireland.
Dublin.
CXCVI.
John Ellis's arm broke.-Expectations of Invasion, &c.
2nd October, 1688.
DEAR SIR,
I DINED this day at James Clarke's,
where some Irish friends of his came in, and
surprised us with the very ill news that you
had broke one of your arms with a fall from
your horse. I was the more concerned at it,
being in hopes to see you here suddenly. I as-
sure you, you have very few friends in any
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part of the world that can be more troubled
for any thing of misfortune that happens to
you than myself. We are all here in great
hurry, and in hourly expectation of an inva-
sion, upon what grounds nobody yet knows;
but mighty preparations of all kinds are making,
and the wind hath been fair all day (if any thing
can be fair that brings an enemy upon us) to
bring the Dutch hither. I heartily wish you
well put together again, and shall always be,
Dear Sir,
Your most affectionate servant,
WM. SHAW.
Mr. J. Ellis.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners of His Majesty's
Revenues of Ireland,
Dublin.
SIR,
?
CXCVII.
City Charter restored.
Whitehall, 2nd Oct. 1688.
THIS evening his Majesty called before
him in Council the present Lord Mayor and
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Aldermen of London, as also those that were
Aldermen at the time that judgment was en-
tered against the City charter; and as a mark
of his confidence in the loyalty and affection
of the City (especially at this time that the
nation is threatened by a foreign invasion),
was graciously pleased to restore to the City
its charter in the same terms they had it be-
fore, to the inexpressible surprise as well as
joy of them all. His Majesty told them like-
wise that he thought the Dutch fleet was at
this time under sail.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary for
the Revenue, fat Dublin,
Ireland.
SIR,
CXCVIII.
Reports concerning the Dutch armament.-King to com-
mand his troops in person.-Monmouthians missing, &c.
London, Oct. 2nd, 1688.
THE advices from Holland continue to
give us the same account of the Dutch fleet,
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that it lies, as (the Gazette has it) off of Goree,
and is three or four hundred sail strong in
capital men of war, and bylanders* for the
transportation of troops. Their army is said
to be about eighteen or twenty thousand strong,
made up of High and Low Dutch, of refuged
Frenchmen, English fugitives and rebels, and
such like medley. Earl Maxfield,† they say,
is to command all the horse, and Colonel
Sidney the foot; and our late Admiral Her-
bert the fleet, and if fame be true, is to carry
the Standard of England. According to the
Dutch computation, this army will have con-
quered England, Scotland and Ireland, in six
weeks' time; and so far are they from making
any secret of it, that they make it their
public brags, and is the common talk and
vapouring of their carmen and fishermen about
their streets; but we hope they reckon without
their host, and that England and its old renown
is not yet sunk so low, as to be made a prey
to such mongrel invaders.
* Transports.
+ Macclesfield.
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233
We hear that many noblemen and others
have prayed and had his Majesty's commission
to raise men in their country for the public
defence.
His Majesty is said to have resolved to
march in his own royal person, (whom God
preserve!) as soon as they are landed; and all
the Court and his Ministers are preparing to
attend him.
The Lord Bishop of Winchester is also ready
to attend his Majesty, as he did against the
rebels in the West.
Several of the Monmouthians that were par-
doned after the Western rebellion, are said to
be missing now; whence we may reasonably
conclude, from the immutability of some men's
tempers, they are slipped over for a new com-
mand upon this occasion.
The City is unanimously resolved for the
common defence, and the London apprentices
seem eager for an opportunity to try their
loyalty and briskness against those new pre-
tended invaders.
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The Lord Dartmouth is gone down the River
to hasten the fleet together, but will be back
once again before they sail.
The Mayor of Cambridge (though once a
Quaker) has taken the oaths from the Vice-
Chancellor; but the Mayor of Oxford seems
unwilling to do it.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
At Dublin.
Ireland,
CXCIX.
Reports from Holland. - Bankers broke.-Confusion in the
City, &c.
London, Oct. 2d, 1688.
I APPREHEND this will be the last I shall
write to you from hence for some time, the
wind having been fair all night and to-day from
Holland. Our Admiral is gone on board, and
weighed anchor, with order to attend the Dutch
wherever they go. The King will up with his
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standard and march upon the first tidings of
their landing. The City of London had their
Old Charter promised this evening, and great
help is hoped from them, as the reward of such
a favour. It was time; for Lombard-street
stared yesterday, Moor and Thomas having
given way, viz. shut up, and all their shops
have been crammed this four days, and the
merchants' accounts all agree in an invasion.
Great confusion, all our noblemen out of town,
and in uncertainty where they are. What I
wrote on Saturday to you, was real measures
taken, though most since retracted; but ere the
next Saturday, I think all will again be made
good.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary of His
Majesty's Revenue in Ireland,
Ireland.
Dublin.
* Two of the Bankers, or "Goldsmiths," as they were called
at this time.
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SIR,
CC.
Proofs of the Prince of Wales's birth.-Prince of Orange's
Declaration. Last news of the Dutch fleet.-Disgrace of
Lord Sunderland.
London, 3d Oct. 1688.
I HAVE yours, and kindly thank you
for your many assurances of friendship to me
and my friends.
friends. Inclosed I have sent you the
King's speech, and proofs taken at Council con-
cerning the Prince of Wales, which came out
last night;* as also the Proclamation concern-
ing the dispersing of the Prince of Orange's De-
claration, which came forth just now, and was
-
* This was a very foolish proceeding on the part of James;
for, as Rapin observes, "Before this examination, the pre-
sumption of law was for the Prince, since he was owned by
both parents, so that the proof lay on the other side, and
ought to be offered by those that questioned it. But after
the King had undertaken to prove the reality of his son's
birth, by forty witnesses, of which more than thirty said no-
thing material, and the rest fixed no time to what they de-
posed, he left room to his enemies to object against those
very depositions."
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chiefly occasioned from the late apprehending
of one Capt. Lenou, that lately came from Hol-
land, with whom were seized several of them,
and he committed to the gaol of Newgate,
and will be tried the next week at the King's
Bench bar. Inclosed I have also sent you the
last news of the Dutch fleet, which is supposed
to be sailed northwards; and we expect every
hour to have an account of their landing either
at Burlington-bay or in Scotland. Our fleet
is now at the Galloper off of Harwich. The
wind has been this four or five days at north
and north-east. Pray acquaint Mr. Dickenson
herewith; I having not time to write him.
My service to yourself and him, and all friends.
I presume it is no news to you that the mighty
Sunderland is fallen,* but for what, is not
" It
;
* Lord Preston succeeded him as Secretary of State.
is believed," says Rapin, "that his neglect of Skelton's let-
ters to him was the real cause of his disgrace. He said upon
this subject, If he gave no account of those letters to the
King, it was because Skelton never wrote but second-hand
news.' But these were not mere letters of news. One
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known; though, negatively, it is not for hold-
ing correspondence with the Dutch, as the
King declared in Council, but for other private
reasons best known to himself. As for poor
Coddan, who, I understand, is coming for Eng-
land, he was forced to leave Cork to avoid the
oppression of the merchants, &c. let loose on
him. I wish you could prevail with Mr. Dick-
enson, &c. to give him a certificate of his ser-
vice done in Ireland, and send the same to me,
with your character of him, which will be of
service to him; for I have still a mind to do
him all the good I can. And it will be of
mighty use to me, not to send him back to you,
-
Wickstead, formerly a monk, seized for holding correspon-
dence with the King's enemies, charged the Earl of Sunder-
land to his face, with revealing his Majesty's secrets to the
Prince of Orange."-" It is certain, that though the Earl of
Sunderland embraced the Popish religion, he was, and still
is, suspected by the Papists. There are even Protestants,
who, owning that he betrayed his master, count this pretended
treachery an honour to him, since it tended to the good of
the kingdom.”—Rapin's History, vol. ii.
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but in order to provide for him here. I am,
with all real and sincere respect,
Your's,
WILL. CULLIFORD.
Pray do me the favour to take care of the
two letters inclosed.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Hon. Commissioners of His Majes-
ty's Revenue of Ireland at the Cus-
tom-House
In Dublin.
CCI.
Dutch troops on board.-The mob destroy the Mass-houses.
London, Oct. 9th, 1688.
THERE was no news on Saturday, and
not much now, only the packet that left the
Brill on Saturday sevennight, and busked*
at sea till last Saturday, says they were all on
board, but the P. of Orange. Schomberg is
"To busk," says Johnson, " is to make ready.”
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undoubtedly there. Herbert wears a flag: no-
thing but the wind keeps them in, and, I be-
lieve, us from hearing of them, though you
seem not convinced. They are surely much
damnified by the hardness of these winds. The
City is already making use of their new Charter ;
and the rabble demolished the Mass-houses on
Sunday, which is not taken notice of at Court.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary of His
Majesty's Revenue of Ireland,
Dublin.
Ireland.
SIR,
CCII.
Preparations for defence.-Successes of the French.-Coffee-
houses suppressed.
London, Oct. 9th, 1688.
WE are still in the dark in great mea-
sure as to the Dutch fleet, our last Holland
letters being of the 28th past, which say that
the Prince's Guards, and the rest of the Horse,
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were to be embarked the 1st and 2d instant,
and he himself to come away the last week; but
the weather has been so bad, and the winds so
cross, that it is not probable that they stirred
all last week.
We hope that their delay does much good
to, and in no wise prejudice to his Majesty's
service all England having time to be made
the more sensible of the danger that threatens
us; and upon that account about 2000 York-
shire gentlemen have listed themselves for the
common defence, to be ready whenever they
are called for by the Duke of Newcastle,* their
Lord Lieutenant. The same is a-doing in other
counties, all men being aware that every inva-
der ought to be opposed (whatever his specious
pretexts be). And this irruption that menaces
* Henry (Cavendish) second and last Duke of Newcastle.
of that family. He had been lately appointed Lord Lieute-
nant of the three ridings of Yorkshire, in the room of Lord
Thomas Howard and Lord Fairfax, both Roman Catholics, at
the request and representation of the gentlemen of the coun-
ty.-See Reresby's Memoirs for the account of this trans-
action.
VOL. II.
R
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us from Holland is made up of French, Ger-
mans, Suisses, as well as Hollanders, who
have all of them given large instances of their
barbarity, as often as they have succeeded in
their attempts.
A number of noblemen, knights, and gen-
tlemen, are said to be also listing themselves
under the D. of Ormond as their captain, each
person to have four or five servants, well arm-
ed, to attend him.
If it be true that they put to sea last week,
we may well hope they are already sick of
their enterprise, it having been one continual
storm, as it was also yesterday.
While the Dutch pretend to make con-
quests in England, we hear the French have
taken eight or ten places upon the Rhine, with-
in the Palatinate; and have but Philipsburgh,
(which is not like to hold out long,) and
Francfort, and very few other strong places,
to oppose them in those parts.
They have cast several bridges of boats over
the Rhine, as if they had a mind to pour
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French over that stream into the empire, and
to master that whole river.
Yesterday the Lord Chancellor, by the
King's command, directed the Justices of Peace
of Middlesex to suppress all coffee-houses and
other public houses that deal in news-letters,
or expose to the public any foreign or domestic
newspapers besides the printed Gazette.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
At Dublin.
Ireland,
*
* This was
a curious proceeding of Jefferies and his
master, at a moment when they were anxious to make them-
selves popular, and when it was peculiarly important for
them to show respect for the liberties of the subject.
R 2
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SIR,
CCIII.
Aldermen of London restored; also the Fellows of Magda-
len College. The King exercises his troops.-Reports
from Philipsburgh.
London, Oct. 11th, 1688.
HAVING no letters from abroad since
those dated the 30th past, we have no farther
account as yet to give of our neighbours' design.
The wind has been somewhat contrary to them
these ten days, which may be one good reason
why we have not heard from them,
Yesterday Sir John Chapman sat at the
Old Bayly as Lord Mayor, and the old set of
Aldermen, where there was great appearance;
and joy shined in all their looks, that they
were met together, by his Majesty's grace and
favour, contrary to all their expectations.
This day the Common Hall of the City
met to choose the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs
for the ensuing year, pursuant to their old
charter; and they have accordingly elected
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Sir John Chapman Lord Mayor, Sir Humphry
Edwynne and Mr. Fleet, Sheriffs. The late
Chamberlain, Mr. Henry Roades, was dis-
placed, and Sir Peter Rich restored to that
employ, and the two Bridge Masters restored.
A detachment of 2 or 3000 men are to be
sent hither from the Guards and troops in Ire-
land, to serve for this present imminent occa-
sion, and then to return back again. Some
part is already landed at Chester.
His Majesty having been graciously pleased
to alter the present state of Magdalen College
in Oxford, and to restore it to the last foun-
dation-men, Bishop Gifford, the new Presi-
dent, is come up for London with his society,
and the Lord Bishop of Winchester (who is
the Visitor of the College) is gone down to
re-establish the old Fellows.
-
We hear that that and the other University
are a-consulting to raise some troops of Horse
to serve his Majesty upon the present occasion
at their own charges, as they did in Mon-
mouth's rebellion in the West.
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His Majesty sees his four troops of Guards
frequently exercise in Hyde-Park in their ar-
mour, which they do to his satisfaction. Two
of the gentlemen of which forces, discoursing
about the proof and sufficiency of their armour,
as they were defiling home, resolved to try
each other's breast-pieces, and discharged their
musketoons at each other's breasts, the armour
answering the wished end, and receiving the
bullet without yielding in the least.
A report is got into the City as if the Dau-
phin had been disturbed in the siege of Philips-
burgh by the Elector of Saxony,* and that he
was forced to raise the siege, and to swim for
his life; which is the less probable, in that we
have no fresh letters from those parts, and may
well be interpreted to be a sham to amuse the
people.
The Commissions of the Peace are a-renew-
-
* The Elector of Saxony, at this time, was John George the
Third, born in 1647, died in 1691, while commanding the
Imperial Army on the Rhine. The report mentioned in the
text was a false one.
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247
ing for the several counties of England, where-
by the Church of England Justices are restored.
The same will be done as to the Militia.
In the mean while our City Trained Bands
are again on foot, and a company of the
Orange Regiment had the honour of first mount-
ing the guard at the Change on Tuesday night.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
At Dublin.
Ireland,
SIR,
CCIV.
Imprisonment of Hubert Bourke and of Goodwin Whar-
ton.-The Bishops ordered to prepare Prayers, &c.--
Dutch Fleet kept back by contrary winds.
London, Oct. 13th, 1688.
It is very certain that the Bishop of
Winchester has received orders from his Ma-
jesty to repair to Oxford to establish Magdalen
College there according to its ancient laws and
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statutes, and to restore Dr. Hough, the Presi-
dent, with the rest of the former society, and
to expel the members that are now settled in
that College.
One Hubert Bourke, one of the Evidence
and Narrative-men in the late Popish plot,
being lately come from Holland, where he
pretended to have quitted a considerable em-
ployment to come to serve his Majesty, having,
by his behaviour and language, given occasion
to suspect the honesty of his intentions, was
seized and clapped up in the Gatehouse.
Mr. Goodwynne Wharton* was taken into
custody by one of the messengers, and exa-
mined touching a complaint sent against him
from one of his Majesty's garrisons (as if he did
somewhat he ought not about his Majesty's
fortifications), but is again released upon bail,
before one of the judges.
* Goodwin Wharton was the second son of Philip fourth
Lord Wharton and Jane his second wife, daughter and
heiress of Arthur Goodwin, Esq. of Upper Winchendon,
Bucks. He was consequently brother of Thomas Marquis of
Wharton.
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We mentioned in our last the choosing Sir
John Chapman Lord Mayor, and Sir Humphry
Edwynne and Mr. Fleett Sheriffs, for this next
year, and Sir Peter Rich to be Chamberlain;
but we do not hear yet who is to be Recorder
Sir George Treby being said to have refused
it. Mr. Common Serjeant acted at the Old
Bayly this sessions for want of a Recorder.
;
The Bishops are said to have received com-
mand from his Majesty to deliver him in
writing what they at several times spoke, which
some think may be printed. The Archbishop
of Canterbury has also prepared a form of
prayers to be used upon occasion of the danger
that threatens the kingdom at present, which
is in the press.
*
* It would appear by an article in the Diary of Henry
Lord Clarendon, that it was the opinion of the day, that the
King was deceiving the Bishops, or, to use a plainer term,
making fools of them. "October 12th. I waited on the
Princess (of Denmark.) She told me she wished the Bishops
were out of town; for,' said she, it is plain they can do
no good. The King will not hearken to them, and they will
but expose themselves by being here.' I told her they were
all going to their dioceses.”
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The wind has continued westerly for these
ten days past, which we believe obstructs the
coming of any letters from Holland, and keeps
back the Dutch fleet. Nor do we yet know
what certainty there is in the report as if the
Dutch had declared war against France.
Some of the squadron of ships that cruised
in the Mediterranean are returned, and joined
to his Majesty's fleet now in the mouth of
the river.
There are not above a thousand men yet
landed at Chester out of Ireland, notwith-
standing the great noise of our jealous spirits
about the City of London, as if there were a
thousand for each hundred. We have no
foreign mail come in as yet, three being want-
ing from Holland, three from France, and four
from Flanders.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners of the Revenue in
Ireland.
THE ELLIS CORRESPONDENCE.
251
CCV.
The Prince of Orange's Speech to the States.
Hague, Oct. 13th, Old Stile.
MY LORDS,*
I AM going to the navy to embark.
I hope you do not take it ill that I do not
make it known to you all where I am going.
I will assure your Lordships, that what I am
designing is for the good of the Protestant
religion in general, and of your State in par-
ticular, as is not unknown to some among you.
I will either succeed in it, or spend my blood
to the last drop. My Lords, your trust in me,
and kindness to me at this time, is unbounded.
If I live, and make it not the business of my
life to make your Lordships suitable returns
This speech and the answer to it have been often
published before; but as in the MS. they are numbered and
bound up with the letters, and as they connect themselves
with the details contained in many of these, I have thought
it better to give them in their proper place.
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for it, may God blast all my designs, and let
me pass for the most ungrateful wretch that
ever lived!
SIR,
Heer Fagell's answer, by order.
My Lords the States are not at all dis-
pleased that you conceal from them your de-
sign. They do repose an entire confidence in
your Highness's conduct, zeal to the Protes-
tant religion, and affection to their State; other-
wise they would never have given you the
absolute disposal of their navy, their armies,
and their money. My Lord, the States wish
you all success in your designs, and have
ordered a public fast and prayers to God, for
your success, through all their dominions; and
beg it of your Highness not to venture your
life and person unnecessarily; for though their
navy and their army be the very sinews of
their State, your person is more considerable
to them than both.
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CCVI.
Full Drawing-room.-Reports respecting the Dutch.-Prince
of Wales christened.-Foreign news.
London, Oct. 16th, 1688.
NEVER place was more thronged than
our drawing-room at Whitehall this evening.
The Dutch have ebbed and flowed these three
days in the report of the vulgar: one hour a
lying postmaster, from Newport, put a story
five years old upon us, that twelve of their best
men of war were stranded, and the men lost;
which, by the wonderful joy appeared in every
Catholic face, showed how much fear was in
their hearts: the truth, I am confident, is, that
their fleet is much shattered, but possibly re-
paired by this time, and the upland-men much
disordered by sea-weather. Zitters says, to-
morrow he will tell the King they never de-
signed coming hither; but I am not of his mind,
and imagine we shall find it by next Sunday or
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Monday. Some vessels this morning appeared
off the Gun-fleet, but I doubt not but they were
some of our tenders. Our fleet are sailed from
the buoy of the Ard-sand last night. The wind
is east-north-east, and thereabouts, all day.
The Prince of Wales was christened yester-
day,* and called James Francis Edward; Pope's
Nuncio† and Queen Dowager gossips; the Ca-
tholic Court was fine, and the show great. The
French are like to come off very ill from Phi-
lipsburgh; for they lose great numbers, are up
to the middle in the trenches, and cruelly in-
fested with water. The Pope is so angry
with the French King, and consequently his
faction, that Cardinal d'Estrées‡ and another
-
* “In the midst of all these distractions, the King caused
the Prince of Wales to be solemnly baptized; the Pope, repre-
sented by his Nuncio, being Godfather, and the Queen Dow-
ager Godmother. Father Saban officiated, and named him
James Francis Edward."-Rapin.
+ The Cardinal Ferdinand Dada, Archbishop of Amasia.
Cæsar Cardinal d'Estrées, son of the first Marshal d'Es-
trées. He was much employed by Lewis the Fourteenth in
his various negotiations with the Princes of Italy.
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fellow with a hard name, are commanded out
of Rome and his territories.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary of His
Majesty's Revenue in Dublin.
Dublin.
Ireland.
CCVII.
16th Oct. 1688.
THE wind hath been fair these three
days, and we expect the Dutch Armada will
appear every minute upon the coast.
O. WYNNE.
CCVIII.
Irish troops disorderly.-Dutch fleet shattered.-The King
calls the Judges, &c. together.-Ill treatment of the
writer.
London, Oct. 23d, 1688.
OUR Irish tall fellows* came into Hol-
bourne, where they quarter, on Saturday; on
* A portion of the Irish army, which had been sent for
over by James to assist in defending him in his present emer-
gency. See Letter 203.
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Sunday a squabble with the neighbourhood,
but not much hurt, though the world talk of
murder, ravishment, &c. There seems to be
little use for them at last; for our last accounts
from Holland say a mighty sickness amongst
men and horses, and the Prince of Orange very
melancholy. They were much shattered, to be
sure, and concealed their harm what they could.
We begin to vapour here apace, and strive for
troops. I wish myself quit of some burthen-
some horses; for I look upon the terror over,
but what they will have by our fleet and fire-
ships, if the wind would shrink but to a mo-
derate gale. Yesterday, before the preceding
tidings came, was held a high Council here.
There were summoned the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal here or hereabouts, the Judges,
(whereof Sir Tho. Stringer, to-day a new one,
in the place of Allibone, dead,) Lord Mayor of
London, Aldermen and Sheriffs, and the emi-
nent lawyers; where the King, in short, told
them, that he did not doubt but they were all
satisfied the design of Holland was to invade
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him; that he was firmly resolved to oppose
them in person; and because he knew not how
Providence might dispose of him, he had called
them there, he hoped, to convince them of the
barbarity of the report that had painted him so
unnatural that he would debar his own daugh-
ters from the right of succeeding him, to give
his kingdoms to a supposititious son; there-
fore, he offered the proof to be scanned before
them of the legality of his son the Prince's
birth, which was the Queen Dowager's oath,
Lady Roscommon,* Lady Bellasis,† Arran, and
Water James
* Frances (Boyle) eldest daughter of Richard first Earl of
Burlington, and of his wife Elizabeth Clifford, daughter and
heiress of Henry Earl of Cumberland. This lady was first
the wife of Colonel Courtenay, and after his death married,
in 1682, the celebrated Wentworth (Dillon) fourth Earl of
Roscommon, whom she survived many years.
+ Susan, daughter and coheiress of Sir William Airemine,
of Osgodby, Bart. She married Sir Henry Bellasyse, K.B.
eldest son of John Lord Bellasyse, who was killed during his
father's lifetime. She is said to have intrigued with Charles
the Second, who created her in consequence, in 1674, Ba-
roness Bellasyse of Osgodby for life. She subsequently mar-
ried Fortrey, of Chequers, Esq. whom she survived.
V
She died March 6th, 1713.
VOL. II.
S.
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Sunderland, and many others, that swore very
plainly and positively in the matter; and his
Majesty at last declared, upon his honour, that
he had often laid his hand upon the Queen's
belly, and felt the child stir. This will be re-
gistered in Chancery after the same manner the
late King's Declaration was of the Duke of
Monmouth's illegitimacy. We are low in the
pocket at Court, and so am I that lie now in
the nearer neighbourhood of it; therefore, here-
after direct your's to me at Mr. Mic". East's
in Ax-yard, King-street, Westminster. Sarse-
feild said he had not answered my note at Dub-
lin, but would do it here, which I faintly hope.
If you can do any good with Mr. Eustace,
send me a bill.
I have been scandalized and used like a dog
by Lords Dartmouth and Preston: they casting
out in their cups that I was a spy employed
by the Priests to give intelligence and drive
that interest. God knows how far I have been
from such designs, or injuring any body from
the freedom of their private discourse; yet is
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this whispered about to my great trouble;
and upon taxing Lord Preston, he denies all
with imprecations; and Mr. Musgrave pretends
to answer for my Lord Dartmouth, that he
never either said or thought such a thing. I
could well enough sit down with this dirt
thrown at me, knowing it will rub off when
it is dry, but that the thought, I fear, sticks
with my Lord D. of Ormonde. You have
known some of my nearest thoughts: if you
think I deserve your good word, say something
to him in your next.
Mr. Ellis.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary of his
Majesty's Revenue in Ireland,
Ireland.
At Dublin.
S 2
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CCIX.
23d Oct. 1688.
MR. ELLIS,
I HAVE had two letters lately from you,
the later of which was given me yesterday by
Markham, who owns your care of him in the
time of his sickness; and I do allow of the
expenses you were at on his behalf during that
time, and for his coming hither, though they
exceeded what I thought fit to give him for his
maintenance till he should be otherwise pro-
vided for. I thank you for the advertisements
you have given me relating to my regiment,
and desire to hear from you as matter shall
offer.
To John Ellis, Esq. at the Custom-
house in
Dublin.
ORMONDE.
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SIR,
CCX.
No certain news.-Rumours from Philipsburgh, Constanti-
nople, and Holland.-Colonel Sydney's books searched, &c.
London, Oct. 27th, 1688.
OUR mails from abroad have for this
fortnight hung out, and we may reasonably
conclude them to be stopped, as well by the
wind as otherwise; so that our advices from
abroad are very scanty, and we know not well
how matters go at Philipsburgh: wagers are
laid it will not be taken this bout. It is certain
the Dauphin has hard labour, though his glory
will be the greater if he succeeds. But at the
coming away of our last Brussels letters, a re-
port just began to spring up in that town, that
the Dauphin had broke up the siege, and con-
verted it into a blockade; but as we know not
to whom or whence this advice came thither,
we must suspend affording it absolute credit.
Our letters from Constantinople, of August
24th, assure you that they have not been in
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any trouble or disturbance since the rebellion
of the Zorbas, which was just after the election
of the new Emperor; and that especially the
English live in perfect peace, and have more
civility shown them, and enjoying more pri-
vileges, than formerly; that the Grand Vi-
zier is now raising men to go in person towards
Belgrade; that there are sixteen sail of Vene-
tian men-of-war lying at the mouth of the
Dardanelles, though without performing much,
only keeping out small vessels from Alexan-
dria, which renders things very dear at Con-
stantinople.
The wind did again come about yesterday
to the south-east, which was fair to the Dutch;
so that it is probable they took hold of the op-
portunity to come away, especially the nights
being so clear and light; but to-day is south-
west again.
Some tell us of the Prince of Orange's being
sick, and that the bloody flux reigns in their
fleet. Some foot and horse having been em-
barked these three weeks or a month, and most
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of them people that have never seen the sea
before, they are supposed to be in a sweet con-
dition.
The first tempest disabled several of their
best ships, three weeks ago; but the storm of
last Saturday night was yet more violent, so
that we expect with impatience to know how
the Dutch fleet escaped it, thirty of their men-
of-war having been seen abroad that day under
sail, some few hours before the storm began,
which in all likelihood forced them back again.
The Count of Nassau, General of the Horse,
and the Count of Solms, are said to be on board
the Hollands fleet; and they tell us, that
during the Prince of Orange's absence, the
Count of Flodrop, the Prince Waldeck, and
Lieutenant-general Alva, will have the com-
mand on the frontiers of Gelderland; Lieute-
nant-general Delvich, upon those of Overys-
sell ;
the Count of Horn and Lieutenant-ge-
neral Webnom, in Flanders; and Major-
General Obdam, at Boisleduc.
The King's fleet, under my Lord Dart-
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mouth, were seen off of Essex sailing towards
the Gun-fleet; they were thirty-three men-of-
war in number, and sixteen fire-ships. Some of
the biggest ships are yet in the River, and will
follow very speedily.
The City of London chose one Mr. R.
Sumners to be their Recorder, but he declined
it; and since they have elected Mr. Selby.
Mr. Serjeant Stringer* (whose son married
the Lord Chancellor's daughter) is made Puisne
Judge of the King's Bench, in the room of
Judge Allybone, lately deceased.
Great noise has been made about a large sum
of money and arms found in a milliner's house
in the Pell Mell, but we are very well in-
formed it is only a mistake; and that though
there were several trunks searched, yet there
was nothing in them but books, which they
say belong to Colonel Sidney, who went into
Holland some while since.
* Sir Thomas Stringer, Knight, of Darrance, near Enfield,
in Middlesex. His son, William Stringer, Esq. had married
Margaret Jefferies, the Chancellor's eldest daughter.
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The depositions about the birth of the
Prince of Wales are to be enrolled in Chan-
cery, and several lords and ladies attended this
day to that purpose.
Our Cologne letters inform us that 600
men more of the troops of the Circle were
entered that town to reinforce its garrison, and
there was going to be a camp of 25 or 30,000
men near Wesell, and a magazine established
at Duisburg* for their subsistence, in case of
marching; that there will be 8000 of the Hol-
lands troops, and that the rest will be furnished
by the Circles of Westphalia and Lower Saxony.
Coblentz is not invested.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
* A strong town in the Duchy of Cleves, situated on the
right bank of the Rhine.
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CCXI.
27th Oct. 1688.
*
We have neither letters nor Gazettes
from Holland, and the Marquis is forced to
keep house and to live in ignorance, and to
keep us so too. The Prince of Orange was in
last Saturday's storm: he embarked the 19th;
and last Sunday he was driven back, in a shat-
tered condition, upon the Dutch coast. We
know not the particulars of his loss: three or
four hundred horse are said to be thrown over-
board, and all the rest in disorder: others say
seventy or eighty, and some small craft lost and
sunk, and two men-of-war disabled. My Lord
Preston is made Secretary of State, and my Lord
of Middleton removes to my Lord of Sunder-
land's office. Perhaps I may stick with one of
* Probably Lord Halifax.
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them still; but wherever I am, I shall always be
most faithfully,
Yours.
I had four packets from you on Thursday.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary for the
Revenue of Ireland,
At Dublin.
CCXII.
Lord Sunderland's disgrace, and reasons assigned for it.-
Rumours of other changes.-Foreign news.-Catholic Cha-
pel in London destroyed.
London, Oct. 30th, 1688.
DEAR SIR,
I DOUBT not but the letters on Satur-
day would tell you what accident had happen-
ed to Lord Sunderland, and that Lord Preston
had the Seals. It was a great surprise to the
first, by what we can judge, and what he vows
now, that not two hours before my Lord Mid-
*
andy
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dleton came to demand the Seals of him from
the King, he parted from him never more or
better established in his favour. The secret
Treaty with France, or something like it, has
been his overthrow. He retires to Windsor at
present, till affairs are so settled that he may
move where he best likes: his Presidentship is
not disposed of. We think there are more
great men shook: some think the Chancellor
and Godolphin; others, Herbert and Butler.*
The first I look upon as surely one; and if
Nottingham will sit with Papists, he succeeds;
otherwise, Herbert and Butler. I think, the
other. The Gazette is indifferent just in the
account yesterday, that letters of the 23d said
a battalion of Foot was sent for from Mas-
treich, and the Boors were to furnish a thousand
horse to recruit the diseased and dead by the
late storms. The wind is now fair, and hath
been so twenty-four hours; so that we are like
* Chief Justice Herbert and Sir Nicholas Butler.
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to have them, if our naval force of thirty-five,
lying now in the Gun-fleet, stop them not.
The French cannot yet get Philipsburgh, but
have a great body of men marching into the
territories of Liege. Our London boys, last
night, after the mirth of the Lord Mayor's
show, demolished the Mass-house in Lyme-
street, and burned all the altar implements.
The dominion of the Tower will be left in old
Werden's hands, I think; and a detachment of
English entire in it, from all the regiments.
Vic. Barrinton is in town. You may say safely
what you please to your old friend.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary of His
Majesty's Revenue in Ireland,
Ireland.
Dublin.
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SIR,
CCXIII.
Loss of the Dutch in the Storm.
30th Oct. 1688.
WE are now come a little nearer to you
and the South,* being removed from one office
to the other by the change made by the dis-
mission of the Earl of Sunderland, though I
cannot hope I may be any thing more useful to
you here than I was in the other province.
Couriers and letters agree that the Dutch lost
above a thousand horse in the late storm. The
King said this day twelve hundred, a man-of-war
or two disabled, and some of their transportation
* The two Secretaries of State at this time divided the af-
fairs of Europe between them, and were called,—the one, the
Secretary of State for the Northern Department or Province;
and the other, the Secretary of State for the Southern De-
partment. The affairs of Ireland belonged to the Southern
Department; to which circumstance the expression in the text
alludes.
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boats dispersed, if not sunk.* Yet the wind is
full fair for them, and we expect to hear of them
every moment; but hope my Lord Dartmouth
may speak with them by the way.
I am, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
O. WYNNE.
The embargo is off, and we begin to have
letters again.
For the much honoured John
Ellis, Esq. Secretary for the
Revenue of Ireland,
At Dublin.
* Burnet, who was on board the Dutch fleet, gives the fol-
lowing account of this disaster:--" At last, on the nineteenth
of October, the Prince went aboard, and the whole fleet sailed
out that night. But the next day the wind turned into the
north, and settled in the north-west. At night a great storm
rose. We wrought against it all that night, and the next
day; but it was in vain to struggle any longer. And so vast
a fleet run no small hazard, being obliged to keep together,
and yet not to come too near one another. On the twenty-first
in the afternoon the signal was given to go in again; and on
the twenty-second, the far greater part got safe into port.
Many ships were at first wanting, and were believed to be lost;
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CCXIV.
Proofs of the Prince of Wales's Birth sent to the Princess
of Denmark.-King orders a proclamation.-Bishops with
the King.-Rumours and fears respecting the Dutch.-
Foreign news.
London, Nov. 3d, 1688.
His Majesty hath ordered in Council
that the whole Privy Council should wait on
her Highness the Princess of Denmark, with a
copy of the Depositions which were taken and
sworn unto in Council, touching the birth of
the Prince of Wales.
His Majesty having notice that a printed
paper, called the Prince of Orange's Declara-
ration, is dispersed about the town, and the
disperser himself (who is now in Newgate) was
seized, (as we told you in our last,) with seve-
but after a few days all came in. There was not one ship lost;
nor so much as any one man, except one that was blown from
the shrouds into the sea. Some ships were so shattered, that
as soon as they came in and all was taken out of them, they
immediately sunk down. Only five hundred horses died for
want of air."
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ral about him: It is ordered that a proclama-
tion be published forthwith, forbidding all per-
sons, upon pain of high treason, to read, write,
disperse, or conceal any of the said Declara-
tions, but give notice thereof to the next Jus-
tice of Peace.
Yesterday the Archbishop and all the Bi-
shops about town were summoned to attend the
King. What passed is not certainly known;
but most people do conclude it was the King's
pleasure to communicate to them that part of the
Prince of Orange's Declaration which concern-
ed them and the clergy, it being, as we hear,
pretended in the said Declaration, that the
clergy, among others, had invited the Prince of
Orange to come over. What the said Bishops
will do, time must tell us.
The wind hath been very strong and fair for
the Dutch these five days; and yet there are
vessels come into this River, which saw their
fleet on the other side on Tuesday and Wed-
nesday last; and letters from the best hands
in Holland, by way of Flanders, dated from
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the Hague on Tuesday last, do affirm they
will not be ready to sail these eight days. On
the other hand, a master of a ship, of great
credit on the Exchange, that set sail on Wed-
nesday night from the Maze, affirms that the
Dutch set sail that evening before him; and
this his assertion is confirmed by letters from
Nieuport,* dated on Thursday last.
In meanwhile several people, come from the
country, report to have heard the noise of guns
going off. Whence some fancy that the fleets
may have been engaged; but having no ac-
count from any good hands, there is no credit
to be given it; and it is more probable that it
was some more ships sailing out of the River
to go and join the fleet, which rides about
the Galloper.
The letters I mentioned from Nieuport of
the 11th of September, new style, tell us the
Emperor and Empire have declared war against
France, confess Philipsburgh being taken, and
* A town with a harbour on the coast of Flanders,
situated about eleven miles south-west of Ostend.
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the Dolphin's march towards Manheim, though
that at that very moment guineas are very
plentifully offered in town, not only of Phi-
lipsburgh's holding out still, but of its relief;
insomuch that we would swear there was a
conspiracy against the Dolphin's glory. At
the same time, the Flemming advices would
pretend still to assure us the most Christian
King hath sent three expresses to Constanti-
nople to assure the Porte of his having attack-
ed the Emperor and the Empire, with assu-
rance that he will give them their handfulls ;;
and therefore advises the Grand Seignior not
to listen to any proposals of peace, but to use
his utmost efforts upon the side of Belgrade,
smoothing of him with hopes of great advan-
tages; but those advertisements come through
such partial hands, the Spaniard adherents, that
they will merit better confirmation. The same
advices tell us of the Elector of Saxony's march
towards the Rhine, with a body of at least
30,000 men; and another body of Hollanders,
Brandenburghers, and others, much about the
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same number, are approaching Cologne, to
make head against the enterprises of the
French.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue
of Ireland,
At Dublin.
CCXV.
Declaration of C. Loveseto respecting the Dutch
Fleet.
Nov. 3d, 1688.
MR. Charles Loveseto, Master of the
Loyal Joseph, of London, saith, that he came
from the Brill, in Holland, on Wednesday last
in the evening, being the 31st of October 1688;
and that about four o'clock, the same afternoon,
he saw the Dutch fleet, which is reported to be
about five hundred sail of great and small ships,
under sail; and, as near as he could guess, they
steered their course to sea-ward, but cannot tell
what course they went: that it is reported that
there are several English gentlemen amongst
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them; and that the Lord Mordaunt, Lord Wilt-
shire,* Lord Macclesfield, and Admiral Her-
bert, are there.
CHARLES LOVESETO.
* Charles (Powlett) Earl of Wiltshire, eldest son of the
Marquis of Winchester. He had been for some time with
the Prince of Orange. In 1699, he succeeded his father, who
had been created Duke of Bolton. He was Lord Lieutenant
of the counties of Dorset, Southampton, Carmarthen, and
Glamorgan. In 1714, he was made a Knight of the Garter;
in 1715, he was Lord Chamberlain; in 1717, Lord Lieute-
nant of Ireland; and died January 21st, 1722. The father
of Lord Wiltshire, Charles sixth Marquis of Winchester and
first Duke of Bolton, who contributed considerably to the
success of the Revolution, was one of the most eccentric of
Reresby gives the following curious account of him :—
"In the midst of the impending dangers which seemed to
threaten us (1687), there was a nobleman, the Marquis of
Winchester, who had by his conduct persuaded some people
to think him mad, though he certainly acted upon principles
of great human prudence. This gentleman passing through
Yorkshire, in his way to London, I went to pay him a visit.
He had four coaches and an hundred horses in his retinue,
and stayed ten days at a house he borrowed in our parts.
His custom was to dine at six or seven in the evening, and
his meal always lasted till six or seven the next morning;
during which he sometimes drank, sometimes he listened to
men.
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SIR,
CCXVI.
6th Nov. 1688.
JUST now, at seven, we hear the Dutch
fleet (500 sail) was put into Torbay, Exmouth,
music, sometimes he fell into discourse, sometimes he took
tobacco, and sometimes he ate his victuals, while the com-
pany had free choice to sit or rise, to go or come, to sleep
or not. The dishes and bottles were all the time before them
on the table. And when it was morning, he would hunt or
hawk, if the weather was fair; if not, he would dance, go to
bed at eleven, and repose himself till the evening. Notwith-
standing this great irregularity, he was a man of great sense;
and though, as I just now said, some took him to be mad, it is
certain his meaning was to keep himself out of the way of
more serious censure in these ticklish days, and preserve his
estate, which he took great care of." Burnet's character of
him is less favourable: "This year (1699) died the Mar-
quis of Winchester, whom the King had created Duke of
Bolton. He was a man of a strange mixture: he had the
spleen to a high degree, and affected an extravagant beha-
viour. For many weeks he would take a conceit not to speak
one word; and at other times, he would not open his mouth
till such an hour of the day, when he thought the air was
pure. He changed the day into night, and often hunted by
torch-light; and took all sorts of liberties to himself, many of
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and Dartmouth: all conclude they design to
Bristoll, but will take Exeter and other places
in the way. We here are in good heart,
though in some hurry, and hope for good suc-
cess. Our enemies having fed these two months
upon a biscuit, two herrings, and a pint of
Dortz Engelze a-day, we hope to find their
noble courage much cast down. When any
thing occurs, and that I have a minute's time,
I shall give you part of it. A Counter-De-
claration is sent to the press.
Mr. Ellis.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary for the
Revenue of Ireland,
At Dublin.
which were very disagreeable to those about him. In the end
of King Charles's time, and during King James's reign, he
affected an appearance of folly, which afterwards he compared
to Junius Brutus's behaviour under the Tarquins. With all
this, he was a very knowing and a very crafty politic man;
and was an artful flatterer, when that was necessary to com-
pass his end, in which generally he was successful. He was
a man of a profuse expense, and of a most ravenous avarice to
support that: and though he was much hated, yet he carried
matters before him with such authority and success, that he
was in all respects the great riddle of the age."
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SIR,
CCXVII.
The Dutch landed.-Troops marching westward, &c.
London, 6th Nov. 1688, nine at night, at the
Ship Tavern with several of your friends.
SUNDAY and yesterday the King had
an account of the Dutch fleet, consisting of
above 400 sail, passed the Downs, Dover, and
Isle of Weight, having slipped by the King's
fleet, that then lay at the Galloper off of Har-
wich in expectation that the Dutch intended
for the north, but they stood up the Channel
to the westward and just now is come in an
express, that gives an account that they are
landed, the Prince of Orange with them, &c. at
Torr-Bay, Exmouth, and Dartmouth, and no
doubt will be masters of Exon by the next
:
* While William was invading his kingdom, James ap-
pears to have been occupied in duties of another kind.
Evelyn, in the entry in his Diary of the 6th of November,
1688, mentions, "I saw his Majesty touch for the evil, Piten
the Jesuit, and Warner assisting."
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account that can reach this place. My Lord
Dartmouth, it is said, passed the Downs
Sunday last, in pursuit of them; but it is be-
lieved he was so far behind them, that he
can come in for nothing but dry blows, since,
for certain, they landed yesterday at twelve
o'clock noon. All our land forces are, with all
imaginable diligence, marching westward; and
it is believed the King will march to-morrow,
but this is only conjecture. Pardon haste and
good company, and the present opportunity we
have of drinking your health.
I am sincerely yours,
WILL. CULliford.
My service to Mr. Dickinson: pray show
him this, for I have not time to write to him;
nor to say more, but service to him and all
friends. Vale.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Honourable the Commissioners of
His Majesty's Revenue of Ireland,
at the Custom House,
In Dublin.
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CCXVIII.
Prince of Orange in Torbay.-Lord Bath about to quit Exe-
ter.-Rumours from Scotland.-Bishops with the King.
London, Nov. 6th, 1688.
Now our expectations are at a full point;
for, yesterday, the small craft that belonged to
the Prince of Orange's fleet set into Torbay, and
fell to land at Dartmouth and Exmouth :* and
;
* Burnet's account of the voyage is as follows.- "On the
first of November, O. S. we sailed out with the evening tide ;
but made little way that night, that so our fleet might come
out, and move in order. We tried next day till noon, if it
was possible to sail northward; but the wind was so strong,
and full in the east, that we could not move that way.
About noon the signal was given to steer westward. This
wind not only diverted us from that unhappy course, but it
kept the English fleet in the river; so that it was not possible
for them to come out, though they were come down as far as
the Gun-fleet. By this means, we had the sea open to us,
with a fair wind and a safe navigation. On the third we
past between Dover and Calais, and before night came in sight
of the Isle of Wight. The next day being the day in which
the Prince was both born and married, he fancied, if he could
land that day, it would look auspicious to the army, and ani-
mate the soldiers. But we all, who considered that the day
following being Gunpowder Treason day, our landing that day
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his Highness surely dined in Exeter to-day, for
my Lord of Bath* that was there, writes he
should in few hours be forced to quit the town,
so he would retire to his garrison at Plymouth,
where was Earl of Huntingdon's regiment only,
and defend that as long as he could. We shall
march now in few days, and have the prospect
might have a good effect on the minds of the English nation,
were better pleased to see that we could land no sooner.
Torbay was thought the best place for our great fleet to lie
in; and it was resolved to land the army where it could be
best done near it."
* John (Granville) first Earl of Bath. He had been in
great favour with Charles the Second, and was permitted by
him to remain in the room when the King on his death-bed
received the Sacrament from Huddleston, the Popish priest.
He appears, from Burnet, to have been doubtful which side
he should take upon the present occasion, or rather to have
been inclined to wait till he saw which side was strongest.
"The Earl of Bath, who was Governor of Plymouth, had
sent, by Russell, a promise to the Prince to come and join him.
Yet it was not likely, that he would be so forward to receive
us at our first coming. The delays he made afterwards, pre-
tending that he was managing the garrison, whereas he was
still staying till he saw how the matter was likely to be de-
cided, showed us how fatal it had proved, if we had been
forced to sail on to Plymouth."-Burnet, History of his Own
Times.
đ
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of a miserable winter's war.
count of our fleet, which was sent after them.
The Dutch men of war lay in a line to guard
the boats that were landing the men. I wish
you peace in your kingdom and health: the
former is now gone in this, and the fatigue of
a winter's campaign is but an ill prospect for
the other. Some think Macky,* with a good
body, as Lord Lorne,† &c. are got to Scotland,
to see what hands are to be made there.
Ve
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We have no ac-
SOPH
Mackay, a general officer, that had long served in Hol-
land with great reputation, and who was the finest man I
ever knew, in a military way, was sent down to command the
army in Scotland. He was one of the best officers of the age,
when he had nothing to do but to obey and execute orders;
for he was both diligent, obliging, and brave; but he was not
so fitted to command."--Burnet's Account of the year 1689.
He commanded at the battle of Killicrankie against Lord
Dundee. He afterwards served in Ireland; and was killed
at the battle of Steenkirk, in 1692.
↑ This was Archibald (Campbell) tenth Earl of Argyll;
eldest son of the ninth Earl, who was beheaded in 1685.
He
had been in Holland, and came over with William. In 1701,
he was created Duke of Argyll. William the Third was ac-
customed to say of him, that "he got more truth from Ar-
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The Bishops, viz. Canterbury, Rochester,
Peterborough, London,* were with the King
this morning. Something very bold was said,
for neither party was pleased, by their counte-
nances at parting. Our friend B. Jon. I fear
in his country now, &c.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary of His
Majesty's Revenue in Ireland,
Ireland.
Dublin.
gyll, than from all the rest of his servants in Scotland, be-
cause he had the courage to speak out what others did not
even venture to hint."
* Sancroft, Sprat, White, and Compton. The King want-
ed them to make a Declaration, expressing their dislike of the
Prince of Orange's coming. This they refused to do, unless
the Temporal Peers would join them in it. Lord Clarendon
mentions the interview of the Bishops with James on the 6th
of November, in the following words, which agree exactly
with what is said in this letter:-" The Bishops were with
the King to-day; but his Majesty was not pleased with what
they said to him."
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SIR,
Private business.-Prince of Orange.-King's forces moving
to Salisbury. Changes in the Secretary of State's offices.
Whitehall, 10th Nov. 1688.
CCXIX.
G
My last to you bore date the 13th of
October, in answer to your's of the 5th, and
told you that I had received the twenty pounds
from Mr. Bedford. I did then trouble you
with a letter to Mr. James Tisdall, of whom I
desired you to receive a little money for me.
Since that time I have spoke to Mr. Hoare
the goldsmith, who gives you his humble ser-
vice. I had no occasion to speak to him of
the money, that is, whether it were ready for
you at your call, because I have no directions
so to do, neither would I give him cause to
suspect that I mistrusted. I hear nothing amiss
yet of him or the other goldsmith, nor had I
occasion to receive any money since from a
goldsmith, whereby to try their temper; so
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that I cannot say if you were here and desired
your money, you would not be paid by them.
I make no doubt but that you have had an
account of the Prince of Orange's beginning
to land his forces, near Dartmouth, on the 5th
instant. The King's forces are drawing that
way; and, I think, may meet together some-
where about Salisbury Plains, about the end of
the next week.
Sir Robert Southwell says that he lately sent
you the copy of what Mr. Mulys answers to
your queries; and by a letter from him I find,
that he much desires something from you on
that subject, according to his letter.
You cannot but hear of the alterations in
the Secretaries' offices. Mr. Bridgman and Dr.
Wynn are in my Lord Middleton's office; Mr.
Warre and Mr. Fergus Grahme are in my Lord
Preston's, and Mr. Tempest attends my Lord
Preston's private affairs in the office. I am,
with all respect, Sir,
Your most humble servant,
PHIL. MADOX.
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About two o'clock, this afternoon, his Majes-
ty's train of artillery passed through Piccadilly.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary of His
Majesty's Revenue in Ireland,
At Dublin.
SIR,
CCXX.
Prince of Orange at Exeter. The country not eager to
join him.
10th Nov. 1688.
YOUR'S of the 24th past are but just
come in. The Prince of Orange is at Exeter
since yesterday 20 m. strong: he hath bespoke
10. pairs of shoes. The country is not fond
of him, nor forward to run in to him. They
keep good order, but cannot prevail with Co-
lonel Strangways,* or any of his neighbours, to
come at them; but they send their inviting
Strangeways of Melbury in Dorsetshire, a gentleman of
good family, and ancestor by females of Lord Ilchester.
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letters unopened up to the King. They want
oxen and horses for draft. Our artillery went
out this day; the King follows next Thurs-
day; so that you will imagine we are here in
hurry and some confusion. We seized a bag
of letters and a boat of theirs going for Hol-
land.
Mr. Ellis, Mr. Melvill, &c.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary
for the Revenue of Ireland,
At Dublin.
SIR,
Details respecting the Prince of Orange and his Army at
Exeter. The Bishop and Chapter run away on his coming.
-Mails stopped.-London lads unruly.-Duke of Beau-
fort's arm broken.
CCXXI.
My
London, Nov. 13th, 1688.
IT is said the Prince of Orange is now
settled at Exeter as his head-quarters; but that
most of his companions are lodged in the
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neighbouring towns ten or fifteen miles off.
The 6000 pair of shoes which he bespoke at
Exeter are not yet ready, and so we know not
what way they intend to take. Others think
that the bespeaking these shoes was but a trick
to drill on time, till they could see if any part
of England would come in to them. But we
are assured their allies come on but slowly,
all the West being quiet, and almost uncon-
cerned at their being there, while they pay
for what they have. Some of the scurf and
meaner part run in to them as they would to
see a show, but generally retreat the next day;
most of our Western people having, ever since
Monmouth's time, been much troubled with
dreams of gibbets, &c.
The Dean and Chapter, as well as the
Bishop,* ran away at their coming into Exeter ;
and so would most of the inhabitants, but
that it happens to be a great fair-time there.
They stop and rifle all mails and letters that
* Thomas Lamplugh, who was also Dean of Rochester.
He was shortly after this translated to the see of York.
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pass that
way; and the doing of it now in fair-
time does, in some people's opinion, seem as if
they looked for money, and bills of exchange,
and not letters of news. Some tell us, they
begin to plunder and imprison, notwithstand-
ing they have promised the contrary, having
taken violently 3007. from the Collector of
Excise, and thrown him into prison.
Though there has been a great noise, as if
some men of quality, Mr. Wharton* and others,
were gone in to the invaders; yet it proves
false, for Mr. Wharton was seen since at Court,
and other places where he frequents.
Some few of the maltsters and butchers of
Buckinghamshire (most commonly those that
owe more than they can pay) are missing, and
supposed to be run away in hopes to plunder,
not to pay their creditors.
Great endeavours are used to prevail with
the lads of London to be troublesome, under
the pretence of pulling down the Popish chapels
* The Honourable Goodwin Wharton, mentioned before,
in Letter 204.
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in Lime-street, Bucklersbury, and St. John's.
Some scores of them have rendezvoused these
two last nights; but upon beat of drum, and
appearing of any small part of the militia, have
scampered away, and by flight provided for
their safety: the Lord Mayor and Lieute-
nancy of the City, as well as the officers of the
county of Middlesex, keeping a strict eye to
the least motion that is made by these young
mutineers.
Our fleet is still about the Downs, and that
of the Dutch about Torbay; several of their
sea and land men desert them. Last night a
lieutenant of one of their men-of-war was
examined at the Council in Whitehall: he was
originally a Scotsman, and says their fleet is
but forty-four sail, and twelve fire-ships, and
no great vessels among them, and that they
begin to want provisions.
We have no farther apprehension of a party
of their fleet being gone northward; for that
Major-General Mackay, who was to command
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them, was one of the first who landed in the
West.
We are told the Duke of Beaufort has broke
his arm at Bristol; which, if true, is the greater
mischance at this time that his presence is so
necessary for the King's service in that place.
The French go on with their conquest in
Germany without control, it being sleeping-
time with the Germans, who did not expect a
campaign in the depth of winter. All the Pa-
latinate is surrendered, and many of the locks
of the Rhine in the Electorate of Cologne,
Mayence, and Treves. Coblentz, the famous
magazine and fountain of good Rhenish wine,
is bombarded, and quite ruined to the ground;*
but the French of a sudden retired from be-
fore it, likely to go upon some design that
required more haste. The French are draw-
-
"On bombarde Coblentz pour punir l'Electeur de Trèves
d'y avoir reçu des troupes de l'Electeur de Saxe; on s'empare
aussi de Trèves, Spire, et Worms."-President Henault,
Abrégé Chronologique.
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ing men together towards the borders of Hol-
land, being loth to slip the opportunity of
the Prince of Orange's absence with the chief
and best of the Dutch officers.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
SIR,
CCXXII.
Lord Lovelace and his followers taken at Cirencester.-Bur-
net in the Cathedral at Exeter.-Details respecting the
Prince of Orange.
London, Nov. 15th, 1688.
LAST night came an express from Ci-
rencester in Gloucestershire, with an account
that the Lord Lovelace* riding through that
* John third Lord Lovelace was an early and strenuous
friend of the Revolution. In Lysons' Magna Britannia, in
the account of Hurley in Berkshire, is the following pas-
sage:"Lady Place, the seat of Mr. Kempenfelt, was built
about the year 1600, by Sir Richard Lovelace. It was fitted
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town with a strong party of about one hundred
horse very well armed, was stopped by the mi-
litia of the county; and they requiring of him
what was his business to go so armed, and
whither he was a-going; but his Lordship not
giving any good answer of himself or his com-
pany, thought it his best way to fight his pas-
sage through; and charging the militia, which
was but part of a troop, they came to blows;
and in the scuffle, one Major Lowridge and his
son, who commanded the militia, were killed;
one Captain Williams and five or six more,
wounded; but we do not yet hear how many
of the rebels were killed, only that the Lord
up with great splendour by John Lord Lovelace, in the reign
of King William. The hall and staircase are very magnifi-
cent, &c. Under the hall is a vault, in which, according to
tradition, secret meetings were held for promoting the Revo-
lution in 1688; and it is farther said, that King William,
visiting Lord Lovelace after that period, was taken by his
host to see the vault. His present Majesty is also recorded
to have visited the same in 1785." The splendour of Lord
Lovelace ruined his fortune; and the greater part of his estate
was eventually sold under a decree of the Court of Chancery,
for the payment of his debts.
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Lovelace and thirteen of his followers were
taken, and are now in the gaol at Cirencester.
This party designed to go join the Prince of
Orange in the West, from whence the Lord
Lovelace had been come but few days; and
those with him are supposed to be his tenants
and neighbours, but none of any great note
that I can yet hear of.
*
We are told from good hands at Exeter, that
Dr. Burnett has taken possession of the Ca-
thedral, and both preached in it on Sunday
last before the Prince of Orange, and then
openly read the Prince's Declaration, though
the Prince and he well approved of the not
reading the King's late Declaration. Burnet
sent in the Prince's name to all the clergy, com-
manding them also to read it, and to read a
form of prayer for the Prince's good success ;
Gilbert Burnet, afterwards Bishop of Salisbury." The
Sunday after the Prince's arrival at Exeter, Dr. Burnet
mounting the pulpit to read his Declaration, all the canons
and part of the congregation left the church, not to be pre-
sent at the reading."—Rapin.
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but they are said to have all unanimously re-
fused and rejected the proposal.
We do not find that any one gentleman of
quality, substance, or estate, is come in to them
from the West; but some from the Eastern
parts of England flock to them, by the means
and interest of those lords and others said to
be already there, as Earl Shrewsbury, Earl
Macclesfield, Lord Mordaunt, one of the
Whartons, Lord Wiltshire, some Scotch Lairds
also.
The Prince has his Privy Council which
meets every day, which consists of the said
lords and other gentlemen, as Major Wild-
(and some other Oliverians,) together
man,
*
A
* "Wildman had been an agitator in Cromwell's army,
and had opposed his Protectorship. After the Restoration,
he, being looked upon as a high Republican, was kept long in
prison; where he had studied law and physic so much, that
he passed as a man very knowing in those matters. He had
a way of creating in others a great opinion of his sagacity,
and had great credit with the Duke of Buckingham."-Bur-
net. Wildman was a staunch Republican. He was impli-
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with Burnett, Ferguson,* and Balfour,† who is
a Scotch field-preacher, and said to be the man
that murdered the Archbishop of St. Andrew's‡
cated more or less in all the plots of Charles's and James's
reigns.
66
Ferguson was a hot and a bold man, whose spirit was
naturally turned to plotting. He was always unquiet, and
setting people on to some mischief. I knew a private thing
of him, by which it appeared he was a profligate knave, and
could cheat those that trusted him entirely. So, though he,
being a Scottish man, took all the ways he could to be admit-
ted into some acquaintance with me, I would never see him,
or speak with him; and I did not know his face till the Re-
volution. He was cast out by the Presbyterians; and then
went among the Independents, where his boldness raised him
to some figure, though he was at bottom a very empty man."
-Burnet. Ferguson had been engaged in Monmouth's Re-
bellion, after which he fled to Holland, and came over with
the Prince of Orange, as is stated in this letter.
↑ John Balfour of Burleigh. He had been, in effect, one
of the most active of the murderers of the Archbishop.
Sharp, Archbishop of St. Andrew's. He was a cruel,
treacherous, worldly, and time-serving man. His murder
took place in 1679, and was thus perpetrated:-" When a
party of furious men were riding through a moor near St.
Andrew's, they saw the Archbishop's coach appear.
coming from a council day, and was driving home. He had
sent some of his servants home before him, to let them know
he was coming, and others he had sent off on compliments;
He was
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about the year 78, and for which he has been
since fled, and protected by the States of Hol-
land.
His Majesty is very well satisfied with the
zeal and care of the militia in Gloucestershire,
who behaved themselves so well upon this oc-
casion in taking the Lord Lovelace; and it is
said his Majesty intends some particular mark
of favour to every one concerned in that action;
which, as it is much for their own honour and
so that there was no horsemen about the coach. They, seeing
this, concluded, according to their frantic enthusiastic notions,
that God had now delivered up their greatest enemy into
their hands. Some of them made up to the coach, while the
rest were at scouts riding all about the moor. One of them fired
a pistol at him, which burnt his coat and gown; but did not
go into his body. Upon this, they perceived he had a magical
secret to secure him against a shot; and they drew him out
of his coach, and murdered him barbarously, repeating their
strokes till they were sure he was quite dead; and so they
got clear off, nobody happening to cross the moor all the while.
This was the dismal end of that unhappy man. It struck all
people with horror, and softened his enemies into some ten-
derness; so that his memory was treated with decency by
those who had very little respect for him during his life."-
Burnet.
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for the credit and reputation of the militia of
that county, so it is hoped it may prove a good
example to the militia of other counties to do
their duty likewise.
Some letters from the West say the Prince
of Orange intends for Bristol, and thence to
Glostershire and to Salop, and that he has abun-
dance of copper and tîn boats to use upon the
Severn; but of this time must tell us the cer-
tainty; and his Majesty has sent some thou-
sands of his army to dispute their passage
about Bristol.
Orders are given to stop all passengers, in all
parts of England, who have no passes from a
Secretary of State; and the militia are to take
care in it, as well as the civil magistrate.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
At Dublin.
Ireland,
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CCXXIII.
King gone to Windsor, and from thence intends to go west-
ward.-Petition for a Free Parliament.
17th Nov, 1688.
Just now late comes yours of the 3rd.
This day at two his Majesty marched for
Windsor with the Prince of Wales. They will
be to-morrow at Basinstoke or Andover. The
Queen is here still! This is melancholy time
with us all what adds to our pain is, that our
fleet set sail yesterday, in quest, it is thought,
of the Dutch fleet. God send us good success!
A petition signed by the Archbishops and
several Lords (about seventeen in all) was this
noon delivered to his Majesty, praying him to
call a free Parliament,* and to prevent the
effusion of blood. I know not what answer
it had.
Mr. Ellis.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary for the
Revenue of Ireland,
At Dublin.
* « Nov. 17th. In the morning the Archbishop and the
rest of the lords spiritual and temporal who had met, de-
AM
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SIR,
CCXXIV.
The King's Fleet sets sail.-Prince of Orange seizes the
King's money.-Bishops with the King.-General News.
London, Nov. 17th, 1688.
YESTERDAY his Majesty's fleet, under
the Lord Dartmouth, set sail out of the Downs
towards the West, the wind N. E. a brisk gale;
and it is confidently reported his Lordship's
orders are to fight the Dutch.
The Lord Lovelace and his partizans that
were taken with him are removed from Ciren-
cester Gaol to Gloster Castle, under a strict
guard.
The Prince of Orange continues to seize on
the King's money at Exeter. Besides the 300%.
livered the Petition to the King, with which his Majesty
seemed not pleased, and gave a very short answer to them, to
this effect, that he would call a Parliament as soon as it was
convenient, but it could not be while the invasion and rebellion
lasted."-Diary of Henry Earl of Clarendon; in which will
also be found a long and detailed account of the preparation
and presentation of the petition.
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303
we formerly mentioned, we are told now of
40007. more arising from the Customs and
Excise.
Yesterday morning, about two o'clock, a fire
happened in Leadenhall Market, burning very
furiously for a time; but by the care that
was taken to extinguish it, no more than two
houses were destroyed.
This day was published a Proclamation for-
bidding the holding of Exeter fair, or any
other fair within twenty miles of that place.
Yesterday the Bishops in town attended his
Majesty; but how far any persons have ex-
pressed their desires of an accommodation, we
know no farther than the common report.
On Thursday last the Bishop of Exeter kiss-
ed the King's hand, in order to be Archbishop
of York, and the Bishop of Bristol* to be Bi-
shop of Exeter.
A bill was brought to the Grand Jury against
Captain Lexham, for dispersing the Prince of
* Sir Jonathan Trelawney.
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Orange's Declarations, but would not find it,
as is reported, unless they had a sight of a
copy thereof.
One Mr. Purefoy is taken into custody of a
messenger, and a lieutenant in the Lord Dart-
mouth's regiment is brought back.
On Thursday evening we were not a little
surprised that part of some regiments had de-
serted to the enemy.
His Majesty departed this day, and lies at
Windsor to-night, to-morrow at Basingstoke,
and will be at Salisbury on Monday.
The ten officers taken in the Dutch fly-boat,
were removed from the Gatehouse to Newgate.
This day the Queen, with the Prince of
Wales, removed to Windsor.
The gentleman that writes the news, being
called this day about extraordinary business, has
been forced to leave the collection of the news
to his clerk.
For John Ellis, Secretary to the Com-
missioners for the Revenue of Ire-
land,
At Dublin.
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SIR,
CCXXV.
Reports from Wales, and from the Dutch Army.-Foreign
news.--Lord Delamere.
London, Nov. 20th, 1688.
THOUGH it be commonly and credibly
reported that our fleet sailed by Dover on Fri-
day, and by Portsmouth on Saturday last, yet
there is no manner of account yet come upon
what design it was bent; but all conclude it was
with orders to find out the Dutch fleet, which
is still about Torbay. But the sharp east winds
we have had these three days, have been one
reason that we have heard of no action.
His Majesty lay on Saturday at Windsor,
and on Sunday night at Andover, and was ex-
pected yesterday betimes at Salisbury.
-
Here is a report as if Sir Rowland Gwynne
were landed with a party in Wales, where he
hopes to find those that will join him in great
numbers; but some think he has not expe-
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rience sufficient in military affairs as to make
it very probable.
We hear the Militia are every where strict
in examining such as pass and traverse the
country, especially if the persons or their num-
bers be any thing suspicious.
It is said his Majesty hath sent orders for
the breaking down the bridge of Kensham, near
Bristol, to prevent the incursion of the rebels
into Glostershire.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
went from St. James's on Saturday, in his way,
it is believed, towards Portsmouth. The
Queen continues still at Whitehall, but will
follow, as people say, in a few days.
The Dutch army is reported to begin to want
money, yet the strictness of discipline keeps
the soldiers in quiet. The Prince is said to
have hanged one for stealing a bone of mutton,
yet we do not hear any correction was given
those that robbed the King's party of their
horses and clothes.
We hear the French troops are drawing to-
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wards the water side in great numbers, and
that Marshal de Humieres* is ordered that way
from Flanders to command them, and to pre-
vent any attempt the Dutch may make upon
their coast.
The Dutch have offered their mediation be-
tween the Emperor and the Turks, but the
first seems not inclined to a peace, but to pur-
sue his conquests in Greece, and pretends to be
able to send an army both to the Rhine and
to the Danube against the French as well as
the Turks. But the Imperial Court is too
near akin to the Spanish to make any haste;
all the Palatinate being already gone, and in
the power of the French, before the Emperor
could resolve to write a letter, and promise his
assistance.
The petition presented on Saturday by the
Archbishops and other Lords,† (about nineteen)
* Lewis de Crevan, Marshal d'Humieres. Created a Mar-
shal of France in 1668; died in 1694.
+ The Lords were, the two Archbishops, the Bishops of
Norwich, St. Asaph, Ely, Peterborough, and Rochester;
Dukes of Grafton and Ormonde; Earls of Dorset, Clare,
X 2
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is printed. The prayer of it is, that his Ma-
jesty would forthwith call a free Parliament,
and use such means as should to him seem fit
for preventing the effusion of Christian blood.
A report is very hot about town, that the
Lord Delamere is up in Cheshire, at the head
of a considerable body of Horse; that he de-
clared himself in favour of the Prince of
Orange's proceedings, and had himself read that
Prince's Declaration at the Market-Cross; those
rumours adding at the same time the names of
sundry lords and gentlemen that concur with
that lord in the same measures, and that their
general rendezvous is to be at Derby. But
though several expresses are dispatched upon
this account, yet, as all this is with uncertainty,
we shall forbear all particulars till farther con-
firmation.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
ܩ
Clarendon, Burlington, Anglesey, and Rochester; the Lords.
Newport, Paget, Chandos, and Ossulston.
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SIR,
Storms at sea.
CCXXVI.
Wedd
False reports.-Lord Thomas Howard.-
Prince of Orange at Bridgewater, &c.
London, Nov. 22d, 1688.
THE winds have continued so loud and
violent of late, that we could not expect to hear
of any action between the fleets, were they both
never so well disposed; besides, we are told
the Dutch fleet is dispersed by the late storm,
above thirty sail being driven to the westward
towards Land's end. His Majesty's fleet rides
bewestwards of Portsmouth, not many leagues
from Torbay.
We want the confirmation of the news that
is spread about, as if there had happened a ren-
contre betwixt a party of his Majesty's army,
and that of the Prince of Orange, and that
Colonel Kirk and some others were killed; nor
do we find it to be true, what is said of Mr.
Bernard Howard's being killed in a duel by
one of his own officers, who had provoked Mr.
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Howard to give him some unbecoming lan-
guage.
His Majesty is in good health at Sarum,
and reviews some part of his troops daily,
who are cheerful and brisk. The Marshal
de Schomberg threatened to bring most of
them to their night-caps, without striking a
stroke.
People please themselves here with a con-
ceit as if Admiral Herbert had met with a
French squadron, and had at one dash sunk
nine or ten of them; which is every whit as true
as that an army of 50,000 French are already
landed at Dover.
-
Though there never was more occasion of
inquiry for busy impertinent people, that gad
about all day long for coffee and news; yet
never was less certainty of what passes in the
world, most people affecting to disguise the
truth, and there being at present about this
City many engines that are made use of to
spread what most suits the humour of some
party; yet the City of London was never more
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quiet, every man minding his business and se-
curing their debts, and the generality of the
soberer and the richer sort have expressed their
dislike of these proceedings, which are like to
perpetuate and entail war upon the nation, by
the removal of the Prince of Wales, who is
now at Portsmouth, and, as some will have it,
will pass into France.
We have no farther account of the Lord
Delamere and others in and about Cheshire,
who are said to march out of that county to
join others about Staffordshire and Nottingham-
shire, in order to march to the West. It is a
long march, and accidents may happen in
the way. We do not yet hear of Sir Row-
land Gwynne.
Our foreign advices tell us the Lord Tho-
mas Howard* was come away from Rome,
* Lord Thomas Howard was the second son of Henry
sixth Duke of Norfolk. In 1686, he was made Master of the
Robes to James the Second. He was a Roman Catholic, and
was in consequence sent ambassador to Rome in 1688. He
adhered to James in his misfortunes, and went with him to
Ireland: returning from whence to France, on his royal mas-
な
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carrying with him, among other things, the
Pope's Bull, whereby he submits all the differ-
ences between him and France to his Majesty's
determination and mediation.
The French are fortifying all the places they
have taken in the Palatinate, and are a-drawing
together a considerable army to be ready against
spring, in order to invade Holland. In the
inean time, all hostilities are committed by sea
and land by prizes and reprizes between those
two nations.
The Prince of Orange has been at Bridge-
water, and other places in the neighbourhood,
and swept away all the horses in the county,
haunting all the markets, and seizing all the
cattle that come in, but giving some money for
them. He took away a hundred in one market
day at Tiverton, and borrowed seven from Sir
Creswell Tint, a gentleman of that neighbour-
hood. We do not yet hear of his advancing
M
ter's affairs, he was lost at sea, Nov. 9th, 1689. His eldest
son, Thomas, became eighth Duke of Norfolk, upon the death
of his uncle Henry the seventh Duke, in 1701.
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farther. It is said he has turned out the Cor-
poration of Exon, and granted them a new
Charter. He has also settled three Commis-
sioners to manage the revenue of customs, ex-
cise, and hearth-money, who are Lord Wilt-
shire, Will. Harbord, the late Surveyor-general
and Monmouth's Anthony Rowe.
It is said, he and his Council have again pub-
lished another Declaration, which is not yet
seen in these parts, offering to be confined with
his army to any corner of the kingdom, till a
free Parliament be called. But this is but a
hearsay.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
At Dublin.
Ireland,
>
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CCXXVII.
The Declaration* of the Nobles, Gentry, and
Commons, at their rendezvous at Nottingham.
Nov. 22nd, 1688.
WE the Nobles, Gentry, and Commons
of these Northern countries assembled together
at Nottingham for the defence of our laws,
liberties, and properties, (according to these
free-born liberties and privileges descended
to us from our ancestors, the undoubted birth-
right of the subjects of this kingdom of Eng-
land,) not doubting but the infringers and in-
vaders of our rights will represent us to the
rest of the nation in the most malicious dress
•
* This was the declaration of the nobility and gentry of
the neighbouring counties, who had been collected at Not-
tingham by the activity and influence of the Lords Devon-
shire and Delamere. Reresby, in his Memoirs, mentions their
rising at this time. "Nov. 24th. We had now news from
Nottingham, that the Earl of Devonshire, Lord Delamere,
and many more noblemen and gentlemen were risen also
in those parts, and that great numbers flocked in to
them."
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they can put upon us, do here unanimously
think it our duty to declare to the rest of our
persuasion and fellow-subjects the grounds of
our undertakings.
We therefore, being by innumerable griev-
ances made sensible that the very fundamentals
of our liberty, religion, and properties, are about
to be rooted out by our late Jesuitical Privy
Council, as hath been of late too apparent-
1st, By the King's dispensing all established
laws at his pleasure ;
2nd, By displacing all officers in any places
of trust or advantage, and placing in their
rooms known Papists deservedly made inca-
pable of the same by the established laws of
our land;
3rd, By destroying the charters of most
Corporations in the land;
4th, By discouraging all persons that are
not Papists, and preferring such as would turn
Papists;
5th, By displacing all honest and conscien-
tious Judges, unless they would, contrary to
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their consciences, declare that to be law which
was merely arbitrary ;
6th, By branding all men with the name of
Rebels, that but offered to justify the law in
a legal course against the arbitrary proceed-
ings of the King, or any of his corrupt Mi-
nisters;
7th, By burthening the nation with an army,
to maintain the violation of the right of the
subject;
K
8th, By discountenancing the established re-
formed religion ;
9th, By forbidding the subjects the benefit
of petitioning, and construing the same libel-
lous, so rendering the laws a nose of wax to
further their arbitrary ends; and many more
too long here to insert:-
We, being thus made sadly sensible of the
arbitrary and tyrannical Government that is by
the influences of Jesuitical counsel coming upon
us, do unanimously declare, that being not will-
ing to deliver over our posterity to such con-
ditions of Popery and slavery as the aforesaid
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oppressions inevitably threaten, we will, to the
utmost of our power, oppose the same; and by
joining with the Prince of Orange, whom we
hope God Almighty hath sent to rescue us
from the oppressions aforesaid, will use our ut-
most endeavours for the recovery of our almost
ruined laws, liberties, and religion; and herein
we hope all good Protestants and subjects will,
with their lives and fortunes, be assistants to
us, and not be bugbeared with the opprobrious
term of Rebels, by which they would fright us
to become perfect slaves to their tyrannical
insolencies and usurpations; for we assure our-
selves that no rational unbiassed person will
adjudge it rebellion to defend our laws and re-
ligion, which all our just Princes have sworn
to maintain at their coronations; which oath,
how well it hath been observed, we desire a
free Parliament may have the consideration of.
We own it rebellion to resist our King that
governs by law; but he was always account-
ed a tyrant that made his will the law. To
resist such an one, we justly esteem it no
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rebellion, but a necessary defence; and in this
confidence we doubt not of all honest English-
men's assistance; and humbly hope for and im-
plore the great God's protection, that turneth
the hearts of his people as pleaseth him best;
it having been observed that people can never
be of one mind without his inspiration, which
hath in all ages confirmed that observation-
Vox populi, vox Dei. The present restoring
of charters, and reversing the oppressive and
unjust judgments on Magdalen College Fel-
lows, &c. it is plain they are given, as plums are
to children, but to still the people by deceiv-
ing them for a while. But if they then by
this stratagem be fooled till this present storm
that threatens the Papists be past, as soon as
they shall be re-settled, the former oppressions
will be put on with the greater vigour. But
we hope, vain is the net that is spread in the
sight of the birds; for, first, the Papists' old
rule that faith is not to be kept with heretics,
--and so they term Protestants, though the
Popish religion is the greatest heresy; second-
ly, and Queen Mary's observing her promises
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to the Suffolkmen that helped her to the
crown; thirdly, and above all, the Pope's
dispensing with breach of oaths, treaties, or
promises, at his pleasure, when it makes for
the service of Holy Church, as they call
it: these, we say, are such convincing reasons
to hinder us from giving credit to the afore-
said mock shows of redress, that we think our-
selves bound in conscience to rest on no se-
curity that shall not be approved by a free
elected Parliament, to whom, under God, we
refer our cause.
CCXXVIII.
Battle expected to take place on Salisbury Plain.-Defec-
tions to the Prince of Orange.
London, Nov. 23rd, 1688.
I HAD your's of the 23rd past, and thank
you, in the name of the kingdom, for the quiet
repose you promised us this winter. But by the
last easterly wind you would find we are not
to enjoy such sweet sleeps as you wish us; for
army, 27,000 strong, will be able to offer
the
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battle by Tuesday next, on Salisbury Plains,
and our Imperial Monarch at the head of them,
where my person, amongst his faithful subjects,
intends to stick by him. I am like to be well
paid for my pains, but cannot at this instant
tell the value: but it is no part of the reason
of my going; though I can to my sorrow say,
why milch-asses are provided; for the King's
health is in a very ill state, what with the
fatigue of these preparations, and the anguish
of such a sort of people's going to the enemy;
viz. we are well assured of the Earls Wilshire,
Shrewsbury, Macclesfield, Lord Lorne, Mor-
dant, Mr. Sydney, &c.; we fear Earls Devon,*
Exeter,† Radnor,‡ Lord Lumley,|| Lovelace,
* William (Cavendish), afterwards first Duke of Devon-
shire.
↑ John (Cecil) fifth Earl of Exeter. He had married the
sister of Lord Devonshire, which probably led to his joining
the Prince of Orange at all events, after the revolution, he
refused to take the oaths to William, and consequently lived
in retirement till his death, in 1700.
Charles Bodville (Robartes) second Earl of Radnor,
grandson of John the first Earl. He died 1723, s. p.
|| Richard Viscount Lumley, in Ireland, created by
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Earl Manchester, Lord Grey,† Rutland,‡ with
eighty gentlemen, and a great number of the
*
Charles the Second, Baron of Lumley Castle in Durham, and
by William, Viscount Lumley of Lumley Castle, and Earl of
Scarborough. He concurred zealously in the Revolution, and
was very active, in conjunction with Lords Devonshire and
Danby, in disposing the north of England favourably for the
Prince of Orange. He also secured the town of Newcastle
for the Prince's interest. After the Revolution, he served
with William during his campaigns in Flanders; and during
his reign and the succeeding ones received many marks of
royal favour. He died Dec. 17th, 1721. As Lord Lumley,
he had distinguished himself at the battle of Sedgemoor; and
was the person who after the battle discovered and took
prisoner the unhappy Duke of Monmouth.
* Charles (Montagu) fourth Earl and first Duke of Man-
chester. He had been some time previously in Helland with
the Prince of Orange; and upon the news of his landing, he
raised a considerable body of horse in Huntingdonshire, and
thereby secured that county to him. He was afterwards
employed on various embassies, and was finally, by George
the First, created Duke of Manchester, in 1719. He died
1722.
+ Ford Lord Grey of Werk.
$
↑ John (Manners) ninth Earl and first Duke of Rutland.
He was raised to the latter honour in 1703, and died 1711.
He was divorced from his first wife, Anne Pierrepont, eldest
daughter and coheiress of Henry Marquis of Dorchester,--a
circumstance which, though apparently of small moment in
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finest horses of England. Our intelligence
from the West comes slow, or is much con-
itself, occasioned, according to Burnet, much caballing and
intrigue, from the period at which it happened, namely, the
reign of Charles the Second:
"An accident happened at that time (1668), that made
the discoursing of those matters (i. e. the putting away of
the Queen) the common subject of discourse. The Lord
Roos, afterwards Earl of Rutland, brought proofs of adul-
tery against his wife, and obtained a sentence of divorce
in the spiritual court: which amounting only to a separa-
tion from bed and board, he moved for a bill dissolving
the bond, and enabling him to marry another wife.
The
Duke of York and all his party apprehended the conse-
quences of a parliamentary divorce; so they opposed this
with great heat: and almost all the Bishops were of that
side; only Cosins and Wilkins, the Bishops of Durham and
Chester, were for it. And the King was as earnest in the set-
ting it on, as the Duke was in opposing it. The zeal which the
two brothers expressed on that occasion, made all people con-
clude that they had a particular concern in the matter. The
bill passed; and upon that precedent, some moved the
King that he would order a bill to be brought in to divorce
him from the Queen. This went so far, that a day was
agreed on for making the motion in the House of Commons,
as Mr. May of the Privy Purse told me. But he added,
when he told me of this design, that three days before the
motion was to be made, the King called for him, and told
him that matter must be let alone, for it would not do."
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cealed. The end of these matters is dreadful, or
at least the execution. This household went
to-day; and we think the King may before, or
on Monday.
If I should repeat all the occurrences that
pass here, they would fill volumes. But
the ordinary people list themselves apace,
and the gentry thereabouts are slow in com-
ing in; but those of the East make up the
want sufficiently. The Duke of Grafton is
here, though calumniated, and some others;
none can be absent two days but undergoes
censure. Lord Colchester,* Thomas Wharton,†
* Richard (Savage) Lord Colchester, eldest son of
Richard third Earl Rivers, whom he succeeded in his
honours in 1694. He was employed during the reigns of
William and Anne, both in a military and diplomatic capa-
city; and in 1712 he succeeded the Duke of Marlborough as
Master-General of the Ordnance, during the disgrace at
Court of that eminent man. He died the same year.
+ Thomas Wharton must mean Thomas Lord Wharton,
afterwards created by Queen Anne Marquis of Malmesbury
and Wharton. Burnet mentions him as one of the first who
joined the Prince of Orange
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Charles Godfrey,* Anthony Roe, &c. are gone,
I fear.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary of His
Majesty's Revenue in Ireland,
Dublin.
Ireland.
SIR,
CCXXIX.
Reports from the West.-The King expected at Salisbury.-
Samuel Ellis gone away.-Prince of Wales gone to France.
-Skirmishes, &c.
London, Nov. 24th, 1688.
THE Falmouth letters of the 19th in-
stant say the company of foot of the Earl of
Huntingdon's regiment, that was in Penden-
nis Castle, has marched towards Plymouth,
and a company of the Militia marched in; to
which are to be added three companies more of
the Militia, who are to relieve each other. The
* Colonel Charles Godfrey, Master of the Jewel Office, and
husband of Arabella Churchill, the mistress of James the
Second.
:
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Earl of Bath hath made Sir Joseph Tredenham,
Sir Peter Killigrew, Sir Vyell Vivian,* and
Colonel Trevanian as Governors of Pendennis.
Last week a great tinwork gave over, by
which four hundred tinners are out of employ,
who, it is feared, will all march to the Prince of
Orange. None yet of the county of Cornwall
are come into him.
In the western parts reports have been of a
massacre in Ireland of 6000; but a vessel is
come into Falmouth, which came out of Cork
the last week: the master says, that all was in
peace and quiet, and no such thing feared.
On Saturday came into Falmouth road a
stout ship, supposed a Dutch man-of-war: she
came in with all her colours flying, and had a
shot for not striking.
The Prince hath seized Dartmouth Castle,
and is marched eastwards.
Yesterday and this day the officers in the
Tower of London have been employed in plant-
Sir Vyell Vyvyan, Bart. of Trelowarren, in Cornwall.
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ing mortars upon the White Tower, which
makes a noise among the women and chil-
dren, &c.
On Tuesday morning the King intended to
rendezvous his whole army on the plain next
Salisbury; and it is generally believed the
army was then drawn up. But I have not
seen any letters thence.
It is generally said, the advanced guards of
both armies have had some sharp rencounters,
and many men killed on both sides.
Notwithstanding what hath been so posi-
tively reported and written of the Honourable
Bernard Howard's being killed, it proves a mis-
take. And also that of Colonel Kirk's being
cut in pieces by his own men as they marched
for Salisbury, in Popham-lane.
Mr. Ellis,* (brother to the Popish Bishop,)
late sworn Marshal of the King's Bench,
having, as is said, got some thousands of unfor-
tunate gentlemen under his custody, yester-
day morning took occasion to move all things
Samuel Ellis.
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out of his chamber, and withdrew. And the
same day the Judges of the King's Bench did
admit into that office one Mr. Philpott, an at-
torney, who was accordingly sworn in Court.
This day it is the current discourse that his
Highness the Prince of Wales, the Countess of
Powis governess, Madam Labardy the dry-
nurse, Father Peters, &c., are safely arrived
from Portsmouth to Dieppe in France.*
This day came forth a Proclamation dated at
Salisbury the 22nd instant, and gives pardon
to all, without exception, with the Prince of
Orange, &c.
The Prince hath left 4000 horse and foot in
garrison at Exeter, and made Mr. Seymour,†
the late Speaker, Governor.
The King's Majesty hath been a little indis-
* This report was premature. The Queen and Prince of
Wales stayed in England till the 9th of December, and Petre
fled only a day or two sooner.
name.
+ Sir Edward Seymour, Bart, the third baronet of that
He was descended from one of the sons of the Pro-
tector Somerset by his first wife, whom he cruelly disinhe-
rited, both with regard to title and estate, in favour of his
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posed, and some drops of blood fell from his
nose upon which his Majesty was let blood,
and now is perfectly well.
,
*
sons by his second wife. This younger branch ended in the
proud Duke of Somerset, and the title of Somerset conse-
quently reverted to the grandson of Sir Edward. Sir Ed-
ward was a public man of considerable eminence, and had
been Speaker of the House of Commons, from which situation
the Court rejected him, for his enmity to Popery, and also
to Lord Danby, who was then minister. An old lampoon
of the time attributes this measure entirely to that lord.
"'Cause Seymour to be Speaker is
The fittest man that can be,
He therefore now rejected is
By Thomas Earl of Danby."
•
Seymour was generally on the patriotic side, but his in-
tegrity was suspected from the places he got for himself.
"He was a graceful man, bold and quick. But he had a sort
of pride so peculiar to himself, that I never saw any thing
like it. He had neither shame nor decency with it. He
was violent against the Court till he forced himself into
good posts."-Burnet.
*
He was one of the first who joined the Prince, and ad-
vised the signing an agreement or association to keep people
together." The Prince," adds Burnet, " put Devonshire
and Exeter under Seymour's government, who was Recorder
of Exeter; and he advanced with his army, leaving a small
garrison there."
James's illness and bleeding of the nose is mentioned by
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A council of war, held at Salisbury, resolved it
was his Majesty's interest to return to London
with the army, lest the Prince in his march
get betwixt the King and his capital city.
To which his Majesty hath consented; and, I
am told, the army is upon their march, and
that the King, who was expected this night,
will be here on Monday at the farthest.
A small party of foot being far advanced
towards the King's forces, Colonel Sarsefield
commanded a detached party of horse and
dragoons, and met with them at Wincanton,
eighteen miles from Salisbury, where the co-
lonel killed about thirty, and hanged four, and
lost of his own party five, and Colonel Webb's
Reresby, Burnet, Lord Clarendon, and Sir Patrick Hume.
Burnet says, "his blood was in such a fermentation, that
he was bleeding much at the nose, which returned oft
upon him every day." And Sir Patrick Hume's Diary
thus mentions it:Monday, 19th November, King
James came to Salisbury. Tuesday, viewing the plains on
horseback to choose a camp, he fell in excessive bleeding
at the nose, was four times let blood that week, and parted
toward London on Saturday the 24th."
.
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son, who was a cornet. But it is said young
Schombergh* meeting a party of the King's
horse upon Doncaster† road, hath killed fifty-
three out of sixty-five in revenge, refusing to
give quarter, as is by report charged upon
Colonel Sarsefield, besides the hanging four,
which some say were revolters.
The King's fleet are at Portsmouth now:
some have suffered much in the late storms,
and I am told a fourth-rate is lost.
Just now comes an express that the Earl
of Danby and some lords have seized York,
* Meinhardt Schombergh, second son of the first Duke of
that name- -created Duke of Leinster in Ireland, in 1691;
succeeded his elder brother, Frederick, who was killed at
the battle of Marsaglia in Piedmont, in the English Dukedom
of Schombergh, in 1693. He died without male issue in
1719, and his titles extinguished with him. Burnet observes,
"The Duke of Schombergh was a better officer in the
field than in the cabinet; he did not enough know how to
prepare for a campaign; he was both too inactive and too
haughty." He was, however, without doubt, a man of bra-
very and merit.
+ This must be a mistake, as there is no place of this
name in the West of England.
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the governor, and castle, and declared for the
Prince of Orange. *
(No address on this Letter.)
CCXXX.
24th Nov. 1688.
We have no good news here, nor any
thing from beyond sea. The King and his
army return next week from Sarum. The
Prince of Orange is said to be in full march
this way. Yorke city is seized by the Earl of
Danby, his sons, and associates. God knows
what will next follow!
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary
for the Revenue of Ireland,
At Dublin.
Reresby gives a long account of this transaction. He
was Governor of York for King James, and Lord Danby
and the others seem to have completely overreached him.
The principal actors in the affair appear, under Lord
Danby, to have been, Sir Henry Goodrick, Lord Lumley,
Lord Haughton, Lord Willoughby of Eresby, and Mr. Tren-
chard.
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SIR,
CCXXXI.
Prince of Orange at Wincanton.-Petitions for a free Par-
liament, &c.-Mr. Leveson Gower's house plundered.-
Duke of St. Alban's regiment.
London, Nov. 24th, 1688.
WE had most violent storms these three
nights past, which still began with the even-
ings, and must have done great damage to the
fleets; though we have not yet the particulars
of it: two or three of his Majesty's ships are
already put into Porstmouth to be refitted, and
the Lord Dartmouth got in time enough to
avoid the brunt of the hurricane.
It is said the Prince of Orange is marched
with his artillery out of Exeter, and takes his
way towards Axminster, and intends to encamp
at a place called Wincanton, (where the late
skirmish was, mentioned in the Gazette of this
day,) though some think his chief aim is upon
Bristol, and will make the best of his way
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thither, though the season and those roads be
inconvenient for heavy carriage and
very
cannon.
Most people had difficulty to believe that
the Prince of Orange had forbidden praying
for the King; but letters from good hands are
said to confirm it, and that Burnett's prayer
for success against the King is commonly used,
though the English clergy have refused it.
We are told of several addresses and petitions
for a free Parliament that are coming from
several parts of the kingdom; but we are told
the generality of England, as well as this city,
do not intend to meddle with the merits of this
invasion, but to take a surer card, and to declare
for the Monarchy, and our laws as now estab-
lished. The gentry of Yorkshire* were assem-
bled for that purpose on Thursday last, the
result of whose deliberations we shall know ere
long.
* The Declaration from York (which, as Reresby informs
us was signed by, "Lords, six; Lords' sons, three; Baronets,
five; Knights, six; Esquires and Gentlemen, sixty-six; and
Citizens of York, fifty-six,") was for a free Parliament, &c.
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We did not trouble the reader with a copy
of the petition the Bishops and other Lords de-
livered to the King, which has been printed
with the pretended answer the King thought
fit to give them; for that certainly the one if
not both were false and contrived to amuse the
people; but the true one may be seen in the
Gazette, whereby the cheat of the other may
better appear.
Of all the men that have appeared in arms
and declared for the Prince, none have done
more zealously than those who began the dance
in Cheshire, who gather weight like a snow-ball,
and, as many affirm, do plunder as they go ;
having begun with the taking of a waggon of
arms sent hence to one Captain Lee's company
quartered at Manchester. But we must sus-
pend our belief to what is nevertheless confi-
dently reported, namely, that they fall foul upon
their old friends and neighbours, particularly
Mr. Lewson Gore,* whose house they are said
* William Leveson Gower, who afterwards, upon the
death of his nephew Sir Thomas Gower, Bart. in 1689, suc-
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to have entered by force, and taken away all
his arms and horses, and even his lady's coach-
horses, by reason the nice will condemn this
conduct as too outrageous a violation of the
rules of knight-errantry. The chief officers of
this body are affirmed to be old Oliverians that
have long lain lurking about Chester and
Cheshire, in expectation of a day of plunder.
The party that was detached to break the
bridge of Kensham, near Bristol, was com-
manded by Captain Loyd, of the Earl of Peter-
borough's regiment, who in his return met
seventeen sparks, well mounted, marching to
the West, and took nine of them prisoners,
and all their horse.
ceeded to the Baronetcy, and became the fourth Baronet of
this family. He was the ancestor of the present Marquis of
Stafford. He had been one of the Duke of Monmouth's bail,
in 1683, and was long member of Parliament for the borough.
of Newcastle-under-Line. He married Jane Granville, eldest
daughter of the Earl of Bath, and died in 1691.
*Henry Earl of Peterborough. Sir John Guise had,
with the assistance of the inhabitants, obliged the Duke of
Beaufort to surrender the city of Bristol to the Prince's
interest.
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His Majesty continues in good health at
Sarum; only was let blood once since his being
there.
Several of the Duke of St. Alban's regiment
are come back, though in a most plundered con-
dition, having refused the large pay and encou-
ragement which was offered them, but it would
not weigh against their allegiance.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
CCXXXII.
The King returned to town.-Defections to the Prince of
Orange. Flight of the Princess of Denmark.-The Lords
sent for to the King.
Nov. 27th, 1688.
YESTERDAY, between four and five of
the clock, the King came to Whitehall, and
looks very well. We hear by some of his com-
pany, that Prince George,* the Dukes of Graf-
* Lord Clarendon observes in his Diary :- "Nov. 26th.
I met Lord Preston, who told me, that on Saturday night, at
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ton and Ormonde, Lord Churchill,* Lord
Drumlanrick, Sir George Hewitt, Colonel
Andover, after the King was gone to bed, Prince George,
the Duke of Ormonde, Lord Drumlanrig, and Mr. H. Boyle,
went back to the Prince of Orange." To this passage the
following note is appended :-" They had supped with the
King the same evening. Prince George left a letter for
James, (which may be seen in Kennet's History of England,)
excusing his own conduct and blaming the unhappy Mo-
narch. The Prince had been accustomed, when he heard of
the defection of any of those who had been obliged to the
King, to say, Est-il possible?' The only remark James.
made upon the Prince's flight, was Is Est-il possible gone
too?' In King James's Memoirs it is said, 'He was more
troubled at the unnaturalness of the action, than the want of
his service, for that the loss of a good trooper had been of
greater consequence.' But when, on his return to London,
he heard that the Princess Anne had fled, under pretence of
avoiding his displeasure, he burst into tears, and exclaimed,
'God help me! my own children have forsaken me.'"
C
* John Duke of Marlborough.
•
† James (Douglas) Earl of Drumlanrig, eldest son of Wil-
liam first Duke of Queensberry in Scotland, whoın he suc-
ceeded as second Duke of Queensberry in 1695. He was
the manager of the Union between England and Scotland,
for which service Queen Anne made him Duke of Dover in
England, and showered upon him places, pensions, and
patronage. He died in 1711.
Sir George Hewitt was in the Princess of Denmark's
household.
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Trelawney,* Colonel Berkeley,† Lieutenant-
General Kirke, Mr. Harry Boyle, Captain
Kendall, and very many others of note, are
gone to the Prince of Orange's army. Kirke,
we hear, is retaken by the King's forces, and
bringing to town; but what is at least as bad
news as this, is, that yesterday morning, when
the Princess of Denmark's women went to
take her out of her bed, they found she had
withdrawn herself, and hath not yet been
heard of; nobody went in her company that
* Trelawney was an officer of reputation, and was the
brother of Sir Jonathan Trelawney, Bart. Bishop of Bristol.
Burnet says it was he who engaged the Bishop to be
favourable to the Revolution.
↑ Colonel John Berkeley, afterwards Viscount Fitzharding
in Ireland. He and his wife were both in the household of
the Prince and Princess of Denmark.
Henry Boyle, second son of Richard first Earl of Bur-
lington. He was Secretary of State and Chancellor of the
Exchequer during the reign of Queen Anne; and was created
by George the First, Baron Carleton, of Carleton, in the
county of York.
He died unmarried in 1725, and be-
queathed his house in Pall Mall, called Carleton House, to
Frederick, Prince of Wales.
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we hear of, besides Lady Churchill and
Mrs. Berkeley. Lord Churchill's bed-cham-
*
* Afterwards, Sarah Duchess of Marlborough.
+ “Nov. 26th, Monday. As I was walking in Westmin-
ster-hall, on a sudden was a rumour all about, that the
Princess was gone away, nobody knew whither; that some-
body had violently carried her away. I went presently to
the Cockpit. I found my Lady Frecheville and all the
women in great consternation. All the light I could get
was, that last night, after her Royal Highness was in bed,
the chamber-doors locked, and Mrs. Danvers in bed in the
outer-room, where she used to lie when in waiting, she rose
again, went down the back-stairs, and accompanied only by
Lady Churchill, Mrs. Berkeley, and a maid of Lord Church-
ill's, went into a coach and six horses, which stood ready at
the street gate. This was all I could learn.”—Diary of
Henry Earl of Clarendon.
"The Princess went to bed at the usual time to prevent
suspicion. I came to her soon after; and by the back-stairs
which went down from her closet, her Royal Highness, my
Lady Fitzharding, and I, with one servant, walked to the
coach, where we found the Bishop and the Earl of Dorset.
They conducted us that night to the Bishop's house in the
City, and the next day to my Lord Dorset's at Copt-hall.
From thence we went to the Earl of Northampton's, and from
↑ Of London.
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ber place is given to Lord Melford,* and
his troop of Guards to the Duke of Berwick;
and it is said this morning that Lord Dover
hath the government of Portsmouth, and Mr.
Skelton is made Lieutenant of the Tower.
We hear to-day that the Duke of Albemarle
is dead at Jamaica. The King hath sent to all
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal that are
about the town, to attend him this afternoon, at
four of the clock; if I hear any thing that
passes there, you shall have it. I have told you
many lamentable stories, and I wish you do not
hear more from other people. I thank you for
your favour of the 5th of this month, and for
the good account you give me of yourself.
thence to Nottingham, where the country gathered about the
Princess; nor did she think herself safe, till she saw that she
was surrounded by the Prince of Orange's friends."--Duchess
of Marlborough's Apology.
"In a little while a small army was formed about the
Princess, who chose to be commanded by the Bishop of Lon-
don, of which he too easily accepted."--Burnet, Hist. of his
own Time.
* Drummond Earl of Melfort, younger brother of the Earl
of Perth.
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Remember us to my brother and sister, when
you see them. I do not write to-night to either
of them all here are your servants. Pray, tell
me what is become of Dr. Dunn. I hope you
have heard I have delivered the inclosed you
sent me for Lord Clarendon. I am always,
Dear Sir,
Yours most faithfully.
We hear that the Lords have spoken very
freely to his Majesty. The things proposed by
them were a free Parliament, a general pardon,
and a Treaty. The King hath taken a short
time to consider of them, when they are to
attend him again.*
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners of His Majesty's
Revenues of Ireland,
Dublin.
* The Lords who attended the King's summons were about
forty in number: of these, Lords Oxford, Godolphin, Falcon-
berg, Rochester, Clarendon, Halifax, and Nottingham, and
the Lord Chancellor, were the persons who took the principal
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CCXXXIII.
Duke of Ormonde gone to the Prince of Orange.—Commis-
sioners sent to the Prince.-Private business.
Dec. 1st, 1688.
DEAR FRIEND,
I AM very much obliged to you for
your very good opinion of me. I wish heartily
you were a Duke, I would as faithfully serve
you as I did my old master,* for above twenty-
eight years. I thank God, I defy any man that
ever I dealt with, that can say I ever got six-
pence of them, as being partial, but paid when
I knew there was the most necessity. I do
part in the discussion. Lord Clarendon appears to have spo-
ken with great boldness. (See a long account of the interview
in his Diary.) After having heard them, the King sent them
away, with the following words :-" My Lords, I have heard
you all you have spoken with great freedom, and I do not
:
take it ill of
any of you.
I may tell I will call a Parlia-
you
ment; but for the other things you have proposed, they are of
great importance, and you will not wonder that I take one
night's time to consider of them."
*The first Duke of Ormonde.
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wish all prosperity to his present Grace. He
went with the Prince of Denmark to the Prince
of Orange, who is not dead of a fever; quite
the contrary. People say there is a trumpeter
sent to know if Commissioners will have ac-
cess; and if they may, then Lord Halifax,
Lord Nottingham, and Lord Godolphine will
be sent. This is the common talk, and there is
a proclamation for a free Parliament, and men-
tions a general pardon. God, I hope, will end
this in a peace, and the King and kingdom's
welfare. I know you will get the licences as
cheap and for as long as you can; it is hardly
worth the charge, for my cousin Nobbs will
tell you, that the last half-year for Mr. Douglas
and I comes but to 20%. 1s. 6d. My consta-
ble's places are no more for a year. I hope it is
not as dear as those that have thousands, but
we must submit; if things be a little settled, I
intend to come in the spring. I am sorry to
hear that people cannot leave the kingdom
without charge. You have news enough, so I
write none. All in St. James's send service to
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you.
I am at the next house, when you find
time. It is thought others have taken their
leave, and said nothing.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners of His Majesty's
Revenue of Ireland,
At Dublin.
CCXXXIV.
Adieu.
Queen and Prince of Wales gone to France.-The King gone
also.-Prince of Orange at Oxford.-Papists put out.-
Burning of a Popish Chapel.-Prince of Orange's answer.
Dec. the 11th, 1688.
DEAR FRIEND,
I AM to give you a thousand thanks for
your's of the 23d of November. As to the
licences, if they are but for three months, I
hope we may have some cheaper and for longer
time.
I am now to tell you that the Queen and
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Prince of Wales went down the River yesterday
morning, and it is believed gone for France;
and the King went this morning about the
same time,* I hear hardly any body with him.
God preserve him in health! but here all
people are wondering. The Prince of Orange
will be in Oxford this night. The people in
the City are searching all Roman Catholic
* “The night between the 9th and 10th of December, the
Queen, in disguise, crossed the Thames to Lambeth in an
open boat, exposed to wind and rain. At Lambeth, under
the walls of a church, she waited till a coach could be got
ready in the next inn. She went from this to Gravesend,
where she embarked with the Prince of Wales on a small
vessel, which conveyed them safely to Calais, from whence
she went to Versailles, where she was received by the King
of France with great marks of affection, which was some
alleviation to her melancholy situation. The King, being
fully determined to follow the Queen, waited but one day to
execute his design. The night between the 10th and 11th of
December, in a plain suit and bob-wig, he took water at
Whitehall, accompanied only by Sir Edward Hales and Ab-
badie, a Frenchman, page of the back-stairs, without acquaint-
ing any other with his intention."-Rapin.
"As they passed the river, they flung the Great Seal into it,
which was some months after found by a fisherman near Fox-
Hall."-Burnet.
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houses for arms and ammunition, and this day
they are about the Strand and other places.
The Duke of Northumberland has put out all
Papists out of his troop of Guards; and so
they say they will out of all the army. The
King's party, which I hear was Colonel Butler's
dragoons, and the Prince's had a skirmish: it
is said about fifty of the King's were killed.
This was about Reading, on Saturday night or
Sunday. I am told a Common Council were
called this night; the Bishops and Lords that
are here sat at Guildhall to-day with my Lord
Mayor, who is the best man in the King's ab-
sence; and Colonel Skelton, who was Lieu-
tenant of the Tower, came and yielded up his
trust,* and for the present my Lord of Clare†
and some other lords are in it. This sort
of news concerns every body; but I now
* Lord Lucas was made Lieutenant of the Tower, in the
place of Skelton.
+ Gilbert (Holles) third Earl of Clare. He took an active
part in favour of the Revolution, which was the concluding
scene of his life, as he died January 16th, 1689.
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tell you that the good Lady Dowager of
Ossory* died this morning about six o'clock.
She was taken yesterday morning with a sort
of an apoplectic fit, and had three or four of
them; and so that good lady is taken out of
a world that is, and like to be, very full of
trouble. The Prince seems to say he will set-
tle Ireland; if so, the Comptroller of the Ord-
nance was turned out without any cause. I
pray consult Garrett and my cousin Gourny
what is fit to be done. If that employment
be in arrear in the Treasury, I wish an item were
given not to pay. This night I was frightened
with the wonderful light in the sky, and it was
the rabble had gotten the wainscoat and seats
A
* Amelia of Nassau, daughter of Lewis of Nassau, the
natural son of Maurice Prince of Orange. She married, in
1659, Thomas Earl of Ossory, eldest son of the first Duke
of Ormonde, and was the mother by him of the second Duke,
as well as of other children. Lord Ossory has left behind him
as fair a fame as any man of his day, as well for virtue as for
talent. Anthony à Wood says, in speaking of his con-
duct in battle, "He gallantly acted beyond the fiction of a
romance." His father's touching lamentation over him is well
known. He died in 1680.
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at a Popish chapel in Lincoln's Inn Fields, and
set it on fire in the middle of it. Till we
knew what it was, we guessed it to be a great
fire. Here a very great guard, both militia and
the army, you will hear very suddenly all de-
claring for the Prince of Orange; from whom
the Commissioners sent to the King, before he
went away, this message, that he came to settle
the Protestant religion, and desired all the Pa-
pists might be disbanded, and to call a Parlia-
ment; and that he would not come near Lon-
don but with the King's leave, and with what
number of men the King should say, provided
he had not a greater to receive him; but now
it is believed he will be here very soon. My
wife, and all in St. James's, send hearty service
to you.
I hope I may see you in the spring.
God send us a good meeting!
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners of the Revenue of
Ireland, at the Custom-House,
In Dublin.
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SIR,
CCXXXV.
Dutch officers released.-Address to the Prince of Orange.-
Riots in London.—Chancellor attempts to escape, and is
taken.-General news.
London, Dec. 13th, 1688.
UPON notice on Tuesday of the King's
being secretly withdrawn, the English-Dutch
officers that were under confinement in the
Savoy were discharged, and are now gone to
attend the Prince.
The same day, in the morning, the Countess
Dowager of Ossory departed this life, at the
Duke of Ormond's house, in St. James's Square.
In our last we left the Lords assembled, as
also the Common Council for this City. The
former have departed, the Bishop of Ely, the
Lords Pembroke, Weymouth, Culpepper,* &c.
to wait on the Prince; and the latter, four
Aldermen and eight Commoners, to carry his
* Thomas second Lord Colepeper.
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Highness an address and invitation to town;
their names are Sir Wm. Pritchard, Sir Sam.
Dashwood, Sir Wm. Ashurst, and Sir Thom.
Stampe, the two Mr. Hublands, Mr. Ham-
mond, Mr. Langham, Mr. Box, Mr. Robinson,
Sir Ben. Newland, and *
A messenger being likewise dispatched to the
Lords in the North, to engage them to ap-
proach the town.
On Tuesday night there was an alarm, oc-
casioned by burning the Papists' Lincoln's-Inn-
Fields chapel. They did the like to the cha-
pels of St. John's, Clerkenwell, and Lime-
street; but not easily breaking into the latter,
cried, they would down with it, were it as
strong as Portsmouth. And accordingly, hav-
ing levelled them, they carried all the trumpery
in mock procession and triumph, with oranges
on the tops of swords and staves, with great
lighted candles in gilt candlesticks; thus victo-
riously passing by the Guards that were drawn
up. And after having bequeathed these trin-
* So in the original.
BAR
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kets to the flames, they visited Harry Hill's
Printing-house, which they served in like man-
ner. But what is most ungrateful is, their ex-
ecution reaching to the Spanish Ambassador's*
house, which they plundered of all its rich fur-
niture, plate, money, and three coaches, to the
value, as is computed, of 20,000l. All sober
people are extraordinarily concerned at this
horrid violation of the law of nations; and the
* "Though, upon the King's flight, the militia of London
and Westminster were immediately up in arms, they could
not prevent the mob from assembling and committing some
disorders. They confined their rage chiefly to the mass-
houses erected by the King in the city and suburbs, which
they demolished entirely, and made bonefires with the mate-
rials. And as there were also chapels in the houses of am-
bassadors, those of the Spanish and Florentine ambassadors
were rifled, before a stop could be put to the disorder. In
the first of these chapels the principal Court-Papists had con-
veyed all their valuable effects, and this probably was the
chief cause of the pillage. The houses of the other ambassa-
dors were preserved, by the great care of some Lords. The
two ministers of Spain and Florence were afterwards largely
recompensed for their losses."t-Rapin.
K
† The Spanish ambassador had seventeen thousand pounds
for his losses.-Buckingham's Account of the Revolution.
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Lords are said to have assured his Excellency
that they will study some means to make him
satisfaction.
Yet, however ill this has been resented, and
whatever precaution could be used, they did
the like yesterday evening to the Duke of Flo-
rence's Minister's house in the Hay Market.
Nevertheless, the Trained Bands came up to
disperse them, and a soldier discharging his mus-
ket at them, shot his officer (Captain Douglass)
through the back. This performance being
over, they went to the Nuncio's,* who being
flown, the landlord with some money com-
pounded with them for the house. The flame
of this confusion still increasing, and the mobile
threatening to treat the French and all other
ambassadors' houses in like manner, the Coun-
cil being then assembled, got a body of horse
together, and ordering them to fire with ball,
this gave a check to those disorders, though
they seem still resolved to go thorough-stitch.
The King is said to have left a paper behind
* Dada.
P
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him, directed to the Earl of Feversham, for
him to disband the army; which his Lordship
read at the head of most regiments, and accord-
ingly disbanded them, some with, others with-
out their arms; and it is dismal to think what
will become of such vast numbers of poor
wretches, if the Prince's mercy and the people's
compassion be not extraordinary. *
In the mean while, the Lords Churchill and
Colchester, now with the Prince, have sent to
the troop of Guards to be in a body, and they
will unite them in few days.
On Tuesday, in the afternoon, returned the
three Commissioners that were sent to the
Prince of Orange, bringing with them five pro-
posals from his Highness for the accommoda-
ting the present differences, but were extremely
concerned to find that the Prince's good incli-
*«Before the King went off, he writ to the Earl of Fe-
versham to disband the army, without any care of their pay,
probably on purpose to cause disturbances in the kingdom
by the discontents of the officers and soldiers." Rapin.
2 A
VOL. II.
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nations and their good offices were rendered
abortive by the King's being withdrawn.
We hear not yet what is become of their
Majesties; but the King is said to have taken
along with him those writs of elections that
were not issued out, as also the Broad and Privý
Seals, with the Crowns and Sceptres.
Yesterday, the Lord Chancellor, in a black
wig, and other contrivances to disguise, offered
a collier fifty guineas to carry him to Ham-
burgh. The mate, having seen him formerly,
suspected who he was; and consulting with a
merchant, he advised them to repair to the
Lord Mayor for an order to seize him; but
not meeting with satisfaction there, they re-
paired to the Council at Whitehall, and orders
being accordingly given, he was taken and
brought, amid universal execration of the peo-
ple, before Lord Mayor; who, upon sight of the
prisoner, fell into a violent paralytic fit, so as to
hinder him from examining him, and still con-
tinues ill. Nevertheless, upon the directions of
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the Council at Whitehall, the Lord Chancellor
was committed prisoner to the Tower.*
* "During these irruptions of the mob, Chancellor Jef-
feries, disguised in a seaman's habit, in order to escape in a
vessel freighted for Hamburgh, was discovered, as he was
looking out of the window of the house where he had concealed
himself. He was immediately seized by the mob, and, after
many indignities put upon him, carried before the Lord
Mayor, who declined meddling with him. But the Chancel-
lor, seeing himself in the hands of an enraged mob, which
threatened to tear him in pieces, desired that he might be
sent to the Tower, which at last was granted him, not as a
favour, but in hopes of seeing him shortly conducted from
thence to the gallows. It is pretended, he offered to discover
many secrets, and for that reason was kept some time in pri-
till the affairs of the Government should be settled. But
he died in that interval by the blows he had received, ac-
cording to some; by drinking spirituous liquors, according to
others; and as some pretend, of the stone. Never man had
better deserved a public punishment, as an atonement for all
the mischiefs done to his country, and for all the blood spilt
by his means."-Rapin.
son,
"Jefferies, finding the King was gone, saw what reason he
had to look to himself; and, apprehending that he was now.
exposed to the rage of the people, whom he had provoked
with so particular a brutality, he had disguised himself to
make his escape. But he fell into the hands of some who
knew him. He was insulted by them with as much scorn
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The Bishop of Chester* is said to have been
seized near Dover; and Baron Jenner, Burton,
and Graham, at the town of Fereham; Bishop
Ellist is also secured, and William Penn was
brought before the Lords at Whitehall, who
were prevailed upon to make 60007. bail for
him; and diligent search is made after such
others as are reputed to have been injurious to
the Government.
The Prince is expected in town to-morrow.
About two this morning an alarm was
spread through City and suburbs of " "Rise,
arm, arm! the Irish are cutting throats;" inso-
much that in half an hour's time there was
an appearance of above 100,000 men to have
and rudeness as they could invent. And after many hours
tossing him about, he was carried to the Lord Mayor, whom
they charged to commit him to the Tower, which the Lord
Lucas had then seized, and in it had declared for the Prince.
The Lord Mayor was so struck with the terror of this rude
populace, and with the disgrace of a man who had made all
people tremble before him, that he fell into fits upon it, of
which he died soon after."-Burnet.
* Thomas Cartwright.
+ Philip Ellis.
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made head against any enterprise of that
nature all the windows of the houses being
lighted with candles from top to bottom. But
these terrors were quickly over upon notice
that the Prince of Orange's advance-guard
was near the town.
This night came a letter from the King
himself at Feversham, directing what servants
he has in town to be to him thither, with
fresh linen and clothes. Besides those that
are stopped at that place, many are stopped at
Dover.
The Duke of Grafton arrived this evening
at Whitehall.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary for the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
Ireland,
At Dublin.
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SIR,
CCXXXVI.
Affairs of the Countess of Ossory. -- Inquiries respecting
certain passages in the political life of Lord Ossory, &c.
King's Weston, 15th Dec. 1688.
THE World can never be too busy to pay
acknowledgments. I did on the 22nd past
receive your long one of the 3rd, descanting
on what Mr. Mulys had writ, and with mate-
rial observations in some points. But I cannot
think of this argument without condoling
with you the good Countess of Ossory's death,
who, it seems, ere Tuesday left this trouble-
some life.
I will write to Mr. Mulys to have those
commissions and letters from the King of
Spain, &c., which you say were left in her
Ladyship's hands. Your son and I may cast
an eye over them.
You promise to enlarge the relation of what
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his Lordship* did in February 1677, when he
went into Holland, which I am every day ex-
pecting; for it is dangerous to let a man's
thoughts cool and pass to other things.
When my Lord went in Nov. 1674, about
the match, he had the single commission for
it, and my Lord Arlington's affair was quite
another thing. Nor had the Prince at that
time any thoughts of the match; but when
afterwards he had, as in 1677, and when Earl
of Danby was in full power, it is possible,
as you note, that Monsieur Benting being put
over to the Duke of Ormond about it, might
* Sir Robert apparently was in the intention of writing a
Life of Lord Ossory, as this paragraph and the next relate to
particulars in his career, respecting which he was anxious to
be more particularly informed.
+ Lord Ossory had been sent to Holland in 1674, to ne-
gotiate the marriage of the Prince of Orange with the Prin-
cess Mary; which however did not then take effect. It was
renewed in 1677, and brought to a successful issue by the
means of Lord Danby, who saw he could not maintain his
ground as Minister, unless he withdrew the King from the
French Alliance. In 1677, Lord Ossory served under the
Prince of Orange at the siege of Charleroi.
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for its success be referred to the Earl of Danby,
who, indeed, did vigorously drive it on, and
he had the popular applause of it.
You do not name to me that great man that
opposed my Lord's design upon Helvoetsluyes,
but I desire you would. And to send me as
soon as you can whatever notes you think re-
ferable to this argument.
We are all here much concerned for the
safety of our friends on your side. God send
a happy conclusion of these matters.
I am ever, Sir,
Your most affectionate friend
and humble servant,
ROBERT SOUTHWELL.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to His
Majesty's Revenue in Ireland,
At Dublin.
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CCXXXVII.
The King gone.-The Prince and Princess of Orange at
Windsor.
London, Dec. 18th, 1688.
DEAR SIR,
YOURS of the 24th of the past month
came hither, and I had it this evening upon my
return hither in company. Your friend came
well last night. As for the money, that will not
be paid me. I will fetch it ere long, and pos-
sibly may get it with interest. I thank you
for your care of your friend's reputation. I
think his late behaviour hath wiped out all such
like spots. The King, upon his withdrawing
himself, was stopped in Kent, and conducted
up hither; but this morning, by permission,
went to Rochester, in order to proceed whither
he pleased. God send all to end well! pru-
dence will let me say no more. I should be
glad to hear you were on this side, for many
reasons. I have been some time out of town.
A
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Prince and Princess of Denmark are at Wind-
sor; come hither to-morrow. Prince of Orange
has the sole dominion here; 1000 men in the
Tower, and 6000 about his person at St.
James's.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary of his
Majesty's Revenue in Ireland,
Dublin.
CCXXXVIII.
SIR,
M
The King returned.-New appointments.-King sends a let-
ter to the Prince of Orange by Lord Feversham.-Rumours
of different kinds.--Queen and Prince of Wales arrived
at Ostend.-Princess Anne's entry into Oxford.-The
King's final departure; and arrival of the Prince of Orange.
London, Dec. 19th, 1688.
THE King returned on Saturday from
Feversham to Rochester, and on Sunday about
four in the afternoon came through the City,
preceded by a great many gentlemen bare-
headed, and followed by a numerous company
with loud huzzas. The King stopped at the
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Queen-dowager's before he came to White-
hall, and the evening concluded with ringing
of bells and bonfires.
Those at Feversham, who rifled his Majes-
ty of his money, &c. came with great con-
trition, and would have restored the same;
but his Majesty not only refused to take it,
but gave them ten guineas to drink his
health.*
*"All these things were transacted, in the belief that
the King had left the nation; and indeed he was gone
from Whitehall with that intention. He was got as far as
a little place near Feversham, and had even embarked in a
small vessel that was to carry him to a frigate ready to
transport him to France. This vessel not being able to sail
immediately, by reason of a tempestuous wind, Sir Edward
Hales, one of the King's attendants, sent his footman to the
post-office at Feversham. His livery was known by a man,
who told some others that Sir Edward was not far off.
The footman was followed to the river-side, and seen to make
signs to some people on board a bark; whereupon the fish-
ermen and other persons of Feversham immediately boarded
the vessel where the King was. Sir Edward was soon
known; and the King, being taken for his chaplain, had many
indignities put upon him. Then, searching him, they found
four hundred guineas, and several valuable seals and jewels,
which they took from him. Amongst the people who
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The King, before his coming from Fever-
sham, made the Lord Winchelsea* Lord Lieu-
tenant of Kent, in the room of Lord Teyn-
ham,† as also Governor of Dover Castle.
His Majesty sending the Earl of Fever-
sham with a letter to the Prince of Orange,
his Highness detained the said Earl for high
treason, declaring he did it for his disbanding
crowded into the ship, there happened to be a constable who
knew the King, and, throwing himself at his feet, begged
him to forgive the rudeness of the mob, and ordered resti-
tution to be made of what had been taken from him. The
King received the jewels and the seals, but gave the four
hundred guineas among them. After this, he desired to be
gone; but the people, by a sort of violence, conducted him
to a public inn in the town. Here he sent for the Earl
of Winchelsea, Lord Lieutenant of the county, who pre-
vailed with him not to leave the kingdom, but to return
towards London."-Rapin.
* Heneage (Finch) second Earl of Winchilsea. After the
King's final departure, he was among the peers who voted
for the elevation of William and Mary to the throne. He
died in 1689.
+ Christopher (Roper) fifth Lord Teynham. James
had made him Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of
the County of Kent in 1687. He was a Roman Catholic.
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the army without orders, &c. At which his
Majesty was somewhat concerned.*
We had a general discourse that his Ma-
jesty would constitute the Prince of Orange
Admiral and Generalissimo of all his three
kingdoms. In effect it is almost done; for yes-
terday his Highness sent his orders to all the
King's forces in and about London to march
out to certain quarters, except only the Lord
Craven's regiment, and six companies of the
King's regiment to go and take possession of
He died at Brussels just at this time, which occasioned the
vacancy in the Lord Lieutenancy.
*“Dec. 13th. Somebody told the Prince how Lord
Feversham had disbanded the King's army; and that the
soldiers were all running up and down, not knowing what
course to take at which the Prince seemed very angry at
Lord Feversham, and said, 'I am not to be thus dealt with.'
:
"Dec. 16th, Sunday. Bentinck told me, the Prince was
very angry with my Lord Feversham, and had committed
him; that his Highness had answered the King's letter by
Monsieur Zulestein, and desired his Majesty to stay at
Rochester. I asked Bentinck, 'What could be the meaning
of committing Lord Feversham?' To which he made me
no answer; but with a shrug, 'Alas! my Lord.' This
proceeding startles me."-Diary of Henry Earl of Clarendon. ·
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Portsmouth, assigning the Irish therein other
quarters and subsistence-money.
The Duke of Grafton has possessed him-
self of Tilbury fort, and the Irish are sent
away with passes; but Captain Nugent is
committed to Maidstone for beginning the late
disorder.
•
Sunday last, Sir Wm. Waller came
came to
town, and was publicly at the coffee-house,
church, and meeting; and the Lord Colchester,
Col. Godfrey, and Sir Tho. Clarges,† who went
to the Prince, are also in town.
* Sir William Waller was an active magistrate for the
county of Middlesex, and a strenuous opposer of most of the
measures of Charles the Second's Government. He was the
only son of Sir William Waller, the celebrated Parliamentary
General, by his second wife, Anne Finch, daughter of the
first Earl of Winchilsea.
+ Sir Thomas Clarges, Knight, was the brother-in-law of
Monck, who raised him by his interest to fortune and con-
sideration. Burnet says, "He was an honest but a haughty
man. He became afterwards a very considerable Parliament-
man, and valued himself on his opposing the Court, and on
his frugality in managing the public money; for he had
Cromwell's economy ever in his mouth, and was always for
reducing the expense of war, to the modesty and parsimony of
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The Prince has given the Earl of Oxford the
Duke of Berwick's regiment of horse, which
his Lordship was formerly Colonel of.
There came advice yesterday, that the Queen
and Prince of Wales were safely arrived at
Ostend in Flanders.
Yesterday, Sir Roger Lestrange* was seized
those times. Many thought he carried this too far, but it
made him very popular. After he was become very rich him-
self by the public money, he seemed to take care that nobody
else should grow as rich as he was in that way." Sir Thomas's
only son, Walter Clarges, was made a Baronet during his
father's lifetime, in 1674. Sir Thomas Clarges died Oct.
4th, 1695.
* Sir Roger L'Estrange, a most prolific writer of political
tracts, and publisher of newspapers, was descended from an
ancient family, and was born December 17th, 1616. He suf-
fered for the Royalist cause during the civil wars; for which,
after the Restoration, he was made Licenser of the Press, a
lucrative situation, which he retained till the Revolution.
He was besides this concerned in the publication of different
public journals, and was the person who first set up the Lon-
don Gazette, on the 4th of February, 1665. At the Revolu-
tion he fell into trouble as a disaffected person; and Queen
Mary showed her dislike to him by the anagram of "Lying
Strange Roger," which she made upon his name. He died
September 11th, 1704, in the eighty-eighth year of his age.
368 THE ELLIS CORRESPONDENCE.
and brought before the Court of Aldermen,
and upon oath made by one Mr. Braddon, of
something in his writings tending against the
Government, was committed to Newgate.
One Major Littleton and Captain Adderley
quarrelled and fought a duel in the street, and
the former was killed in the rencounter.
The Princess of Denmark made a splendid
entry into Oxford, Saturday last; Sir John Lan-
eer, with his regiment, meeting her Royal
Highness some miles out of town. The Earl
of Northampton,* with 500 horse, led the van.
Her Royal Highness was preceded by the
Bishop of London,† at the head of a noble
troop of gentlemen; his Lordship riding in a
purple cloak, martial habit, pistols before him,
and his sword drawn; and his cornet had the
inscription in golden letters on his standard,
George (Compton) fourth Earl of Northampton, to whose
house of Castle Ashby the Princess had fled when she left
Whitehall. He received various marks of the favour of his
Sovereigns, during the reigns of William, Anne, and George
the First, and died April 15th, 1727.
+ Compton.
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369
The rear was
Nolumus Leges Angliæ mutari.
brought up by some militia troops. The Mayor
and Aldermen in their formalities, met her at
the North Gate; and the Vice Chancellor, at-
tended by the heads of the University, in their
scarlet gowns, made to her a speech in English;
and the Prince received her Royal Highness at
Christ Church quadrangle, with all possible de-
monstrations of love and affection; and they
will be to-morrow at Windsor.
Last night the King went off from Court;
and this day, about three o'clock, the Prince
arrived at St. James's, with great acclamations
of joy and huzzas.
The gentleman that writeth the news-letters
being indisposed, desires to be excused for writ-
ing not himself this day.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
At Dublin.
Ireland,
VOL. II.
2 B
370
THE ELLIS CORRESPONDENCE.
SIR,
CCXXXIX.
Foreign news.-Details respecting the King's departure, and
the Prince of Orange's arrival.-One of the Prince of
Orange's guards killed, &c.
London, December 20th, 1688.
WE had on Tuesday two Dutch mails :
the latter tells us of the death of Pensionary
Fagell,* well known in England for his letter
to Mr. Steward.
The province of Holland has at length con-
* Gaspar Fagel, an eminent Dutch statesman, and supporter
of the House of Orange. He was born at Haarlem in 1629,
and pursued for some time the study of the law. In 1670,
he was named "Greffier" of the States General, a post which
continued to be exercised by his family till the French Revo-
lution. In 1672, he succeeded the unhappy De Witt, as
Grand Pensionary. He was engaged with great success in
all the political transactions of the time, in which the in-
terests of his country were concerned. But his great work
was the arrangement and contrivance of William's expedi-
tion to England. The success of this he did not live to see,
as he died December 15th, 1688, at which period the news of
the great event had not reached Holland.
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371
sented to the raising a hundred troops of horse,
sixty men in each. The French having made a
kind of blockade round Mastricht, were driven
away by Prince Waldeck, killing about 400;
and the said Prince has taken by assault Reins-
burgh, and put all the French therein to the
sword. A person was arrested at the Hague
for publishing of false news, and upon exami-
nation they find him to be a spy sent by Cardinal
Furstemberg. They have whipped him with
a rope about his neck, and committed him for
two years to the Rasp-house. They write from
Hambourgh that, on the 17th, 5000 Swedes
embarked on the Duchy of Bremen for Hol-
land.
The Dauphin is come to Luxemburgh; and
Monsieur de Monbrun is gone to Brussells, to
demand a passage for the French troops to
make war against Holland, which being re-
fused, war will be declared against Spain. The
Emperor has resolved to declare a perpetual
war against the French King; and the Confe-
derates are to have in the spring an army of
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372
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80,000 men in a body, without reckoning the
forces of the Emperor.
The Swiss have granted the Emperor to
raise 15,000 men in their territories. The
French King has taken or borrowed 500,000
livres more of the Bank of Paris, to carry on
his war.
The Marquis d Albyville, the King's Envoy
in Holland, has published a book, by which he
would prove the Prince of Wales to be the
legitimate son of the King his master.
The Bishop of Munster has at last declared
for the Emperor, and promised to send 9000
men to the army of the Allies, in case of need.
What we may add to the King's last with-
drawing from Whitehall is, that the Marquis
Halifax, Earl of Shrewsbury, and the Lord
Delamere, arrived at Whitehall on Tuesday,
about twelve o'clock, and brought the King
the message to retire the same day either to
Hampton Court, or somewhere else; signifying
that the Prince did not think it safe for him to
come to London, so long as his Majesty had
J
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373
such a confluence of Papists still about him,
and that the Prince's Guards should go along
with him to preserve him from the insults of
the mobile. The King went accordingly at
one o'clock, and lay that night at one Mr.
Eckins's house, an attorney in Gravesend, and
about ten next morning set forwards for Ro-
chester. His Majesty's barge was followed by
ten or twelve boats of the Prince's soldiers.
The Prince of Orange remains at St. James's,
where no great business was done yesterday, by
reason of paying and receiving visits; only a
regiment was sent to possess themselves of the
Tower. Most of the Bishops about the town
were with his Highness. The Duke of Nor-
folk came and paid his devoirs. The Prince
in the afternoon went to Whitehall, and from
thence in the Queen's barge to Somerset-house,
to compliment the Queen-dowager. In his re-
turn, hearing that the Prince and Princess of
Denmark were come to town, called to see
them at the Cockpit.
One Captain St. Ange, a French Roman Ca-
374
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tholic, was seized at Court, and sent prisoner to
Newgate.
The garrison of Portsmouth quietly submit-
ted to the order of the Prince, and drew there-
out; and the Duke of Berwick rendered him-
self to the Lord Dartmouth on board the fleet.
Colonel Talmash is said to be made Governor
of the said place by the Prince.
A minister in the City is made one of the
Prince's Chaplains. Mr. Ferguson goes pub-
licly to the coffee-houses.
.
It is said, an order will suddenly be pub-
lished, to banish all Papists ten miles out of
town.
One of the Prince's guards was found in
Long Acre with his throat cut, and other
wounds about him; and being known that he
quartered in a Papist's house near that place,
the people are secured upon it.*
* Reresby, who appears to have been somewhat of a Jaco-
bite, gives the following unfavourable description of William's
army." January 22d, 1689. And now being at liberty to
go where I pleased, I repaired to London, where being ar-
rived, I was presently sensible of a great alteration; the
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375
The Lord Teynham and Mr. Richard Lee*
are seized, and sent to Upner Castle prisoners.
The Earl of Feversham is put in the round
tower in Windsor Castle.
For John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the
Commissioners for the Revenue of
At Dublin.
Ireland,
CCXL.
London, Dec. 29th, 1688.
THE 24th of last month was the date
of your's to me: many transactions, you may
be sure, have passed here; the prints are so full
of them, that I will say the less in this way. I
*
Guards, and other parts of the army, which both for their
persons and gallantry were an ornament to the place, were
sent to quarter at a distance, while the streets swarmed with
ill-favoured and ill-accoutred Dutchmen, and other strangers
of the Prince's army; and yet the city seemed to be mightily
pleased with their deliverers, nor perceived their deformity,
or the oppression they laboured under, by far more unsup-
portable than ever they had suffered from the English."
Probably a brother of the first Lord Lichfield.
376 THE ELLIS CORRESPONDENCE.
wish you here for many reasons.
The King
landed on Tuesday morning near Marquès, and
went post to Paris on Wednesday. I cannot
see who your government will fall to: I think
neither our friend, nor the pert pretender. The
Prince is very unwilling to break any one re-
giment; so that he must have farther work ere
long for them. I know not what will be my
lot; but I am vain enough to think, in a gene-
ral bustle I shall shift for one: you will par-
don me that I say no more.
*
"On the 23d of December, at three in the morning, the
King privately withdrew from Rochester, taking with him the
Duke of Berwick, his natural son, Mr. Skelton, and Abadie,
and went on horseback to a place near the river, where he
embarked on a small frigate, which landed him safely
at Ambleteuse in France, from whence he repaired to St.
Germain's."--Rapin.
>
ABINGDON, Earl of, particulars re-
specting, ii. 77.
Adderley, Captain, ii. 368.
African Company, reported to have
stopped payment, ii. 150; dividend *
of, 186.
Albemarle, Duke of, particulars con-
cerning, i. 63, 99, 105; declared
Viceroy of Jamaica, 109; recovers
the treasure from a Spanish galleon,
294, 297; refines the silver and gold,
311; about to go to Jamaica, 318,
325; reported to have discovered a
mine of silver there, ii. 30; rumour
of his death, 67,340; patent granted
to, 157, 217.
INDE X.
Aldermen of London removed by the
King, i. 335.
Aldrich, Dr. particulars respecting, i.
148, 152.
Algiers, arrival of the French fleet be-
fore, ii. 4; bombardment of, 58,
69,96.
Allen, Thomas, i. 74; his account,
129, 131.
Allibone, Richard, i. 5; knighted,
179; alluded to, 223, 264; his
death, ii. 137.
All-Souls' College, Oxford, proceed-
ings relative to a living in its gift,
ii. 132.
Alsatia, the resort of sharpers, ii. 210.
Ambassador, Dutch, ii. 211, 215.
Spanish, his house plun-
dered, ii. 351.
Turkish, ii. 217.
C
Anatomy of an Equivalent, a poli-
tical pamphlet, ii. 172.
Anglesey, Earl of, i. 75; his death, 95.
Anne, Princess of Denmark, see Den-
--
י
mark.
Ardglasse, Earl of, i. 35.
Arlington, Lord, ii. 359.
Arnauld, Anth. particulars respecting,
i. 363.
Arran, first Earl of, his illness, i. 10,
13, 26, 27; death of, 32, 33, 38;
alluded to, 34.
second Earl of, particulars re-
specting, i. 112; Queen dines with
him, 153; alluded to, 208; his ac-
count of the death of the Duke of
Buckingham, 276.
Countess, alluded to, i. 38, 47,
65, 110; ii. 257.
Arundell, Lord, particulars concern-
ing, i. 149, 182, 212.
Assurance, policies of, i. 376.
Aston, Lord, made Lord Lieutenant
of Staffordshire, i. 339.
Astrey, Sir Samuel, i. 370, 379.
Athol, Marquis of, i. 107..
Atkins, Sir Edward, i. 107.
Aubrey, H. appointed Commissioner
of the Irish Revenue, i. 45, 50:
alluded to, 169; letters of, 287,
302, 308.
Augsbourg, league of, i. 176, 189.
Aylesbury, Lord, particulars respect-
ing, i. 55.
Backhouse, Flower, i. 89.
Baden, Prince Lewis of, defeats the
Turks, ii. 134; particulars respect-
ing, 188.
Baldock, Serjeant, ii. 26, 30.
Balfour, John of Burleigh, ii. 298.
Barillon, the French Ambassador, i.
46, 57, 72, 224.
Barnardiston, arrived from Holland,
ii. 103.
Barr, Gar., i. 64.
Bath, Earl of, ii. 283.
Bavaria, Elector of, his military ope-
378
INDEX.
rations, i. 328, 332, 341; ii. 27, 35,
89, 140, 170; wounded, 174; his
bet with the Duke of Mantua, 193,
216.
Bavaria, Prince of, ii. 36; chosen
Elector of Cologne, 50, 53, 57;
report of its confirmation, 149.
Princess, her marriage, ii. 38.
Bayly, Dr. living in the gift of Mag-
dalen College presented to, ii. 174.
Beaufort, Duke of, i. 229, 366; ii.
116; breaks his arm, 293.
Beaumont, Lieut. Colonel, trial of, ii.
168, 184.
Bedingfield, Mr. appointed Judge, i.
44.
Belgrade, siege of, i. 368; ii. 144,
169, 174, 181, 187, 193; intended
attack upon, ii. 74, 120.
Bellasyse, Lady, ii. 257.
Lord, i. 147, 212, 219.
Bellew, Lord, i. 226.
Bennet's Castle, fire near, ii. 117.
Bennyon, George, declared Papist, i.
126; alluded to, 141.
A Con
Benson, Mr. his death, i. 109, 115.
Berkeley, Mrs. ii. 339.
Colonel, ii. 338.
Bermudas, ships from, ii. 98, 104.
Berwick, Duke of, trial of the officers
of his regiment, ii. 167, 184; they
deliver up their commissions, 196,
214; alluded to, 340.
Bethel, i. 191.
Binns, declared Papist, i. 126.
Bishops, arrested and sent to the
Tower, i. 354; brought before the
King's Bench and released upon
bail, 360, 365; approaching trial
of, 380; list of the jury, ii. 2; ac-
count of the trial, 5,7; rejoicing of
the people at their acquittal, 11;
hold catechisings and confirma-
tions, 61; charges of Judges re-
specting, 101, 109; medals for,
156; attend the King, 224, 273,
285, 303.
M
Blessington, Lord, i. 18, 62.
Bombs, accident from at Woolwich,
ii. 99, 106, 116, 124.
Bonfires, &c. prohibited on the 5th
of November, i. 180; to celebrate
the acquittal of the seven Bishops,
ii. 12.
Bonnell, J. his letter from Wexford,
ii. 113.
Bonrepos, M. de, particulars respect-
ing, i. 224, 289, 305.
Boreman, Sir Wm. death of, i. 141.
Borlace, Sir John, i. 173.
Boufflers, Duke de, i. 363, 383.
Bouillon, Duchess de, i. 322; goes
on board an East Indiaman, ii. 86.
Bourke, Hubert, arrested, ii. 248.
Boyle, Henry, ii. 338.
Mr. the dancing-master, ii. 3.
Brandenburg, Electoral Prince of, his
illness, i. 201; his troops march
towards Cologne, 368; refuses to
renew his treaties with the States-
general, ii. 75; alluded to, 122.
Bremer, Major, made Privy Council-
lor, ii. 32.
Brent, Mr. Robert, i. 215, 220, 269.
Brett and Firebrace, trial between,
ii. 123.
Bridgewater, Prince of Orange at, ii.
312.
Bridgman, Mr. i. 174.
Bridges, Samuel, i. 170.
William, i. 203.
Bristol, Bishop of, ii. 303.
Browne, Hon. Henry, i. 248.
Brownlow, Mr. marriage of, ii. 99.
Buckingham, Duke of, particulars
respecting, i. 63; Lord Arran's ac-
count of his death, 275.
Buda, siege of, i. 134, 143, 151, 161,
163.
Bunyan, John, his death, ii. 161.
Burlington, Earl of, i. 59.
Burnet, Dr. afterwards Bishop of
Salisbury, ii. 296.
extracts from, ii. 212, 215,
271, 282, 297, 298, 322, 328, 340,
345, 356, 366.
Bush, Arthur, i. 170, 308.
Butler, Colonel, his dragoons, ii. 346.
Charles, i. 309; ii. 228.
Lord, particulars respecting,
i. 79.
Sir James, i. 184.
Sir Nicholas, i. 134, 138, ii.
268.
Cairncross, Archbishop of Glas-
gow, i. 72.
Calais, design to betray it to the
Dutch, ii. 143; to be garrisoned
by Swiss, 149.
Cambridge, University of, its opposi-
tion to the King's mandamus, i.
INDEX.
379
272; elects a new Vice Chancellor,
301; Mayor of, 234.
Campden, Lord, i. 73.
Canary, Admiral of Algiers, arrives
with his fleet at Spithead, i. 127,
137.
Candia offered by the Janissaries to
the Doge of Venice, ii. 121, 126.
Cannon, Lieut. Col. i. 313.
Canterbury, Archbishop of, ii. 211,
249.
Capel, Lady Ann, her marriage, ii. 45.
Caraffa, General, raises batteries
against Liffa, i. 362; ii. 27.
Carew, Mr. alluded to, i. 8.
Caribbee Islands, Spanish ships cruiz-
ing near, i. 330.
Carlingford, Lord, i. 155, 241.
Carlisle, Earl of, i. 156.
Carre, Henry, death of, ii. 115.
Cartwright, Dr. Bishop of Chester,
i. 98, 106; his intentions, ii. 63.
Caryll, made Privy Counsellor, ii. 32.
Castlemaine, Earl of, his departure,
i. 35; particulars respecting, 298.
Catherine of Portugal, i. 68; wishes
for a country-house, ii. 85, 129.
Catherine-street, fire in, ii. 97.
Catholic Officers, dispensation for, i.
7; Clergy confirm their youth, 163.
Catinat, Nicholas de, Marshal of
France, i. 363.
Cave, F. letters of, ii. 21, 206; allu-
ded to, 221.
Chandois, Lord, bails Vincent, ii. 15.
Chapel, Catholic, shut up by the
Lord Mayor, i. 83; riot at one, 111,
118.
Chapels, in London, destroyed, ii.
269, 347, 350.
Chapman, Sir John, Lord Mayor of
London, ii. 244.
Church of England, more in favour
than formerly, ii. 219.
Churchill, Lady, ii. 339.
Lord, King dines in his
tent, ii. 1; alluded to, 337.
Mrs. particulars respecting,
Cheshire, proceedings in, ii. 334.
Chester, change in the charter of, ii.
163.
Bishop of, report respecting,
ii. 306.
Cheyne, Lord, i. 238
Chichley, Sir Thomas, i. 254, 263,294.
Child, Sir Josiah, account of his
wealth and origin, ii. 103; alluded
to, 120.
Christina, Queen of Sweden, charac-
teristic anecdote of, ii. 40.
Chudleigh, Mr. i. 160, 197, 251;
about to leave England, ii. 152.
i. 24.
Cirencester, affray at, ii. 295.
Clare, Earl of, ii. 346,
Clarendon, Earl of, i. 1, 8, 18, 29;
lands at Neston, 246; conduct of the
King to, 247; has audiences with
the King, 252, 265; his reception,
253; letters of, 350; ii. 146; his
diary, 212, 219, 225, 249, 302, 339,
342, 365.
Clarges, Sir Thomas, ii. 366.
Clarke, Eliza, letter of, i. 261.
Clayton, Sir Robert, i. 191, 335.
Cleveland, Duchess of, goes on board
an East Indiaman, ii. 86.
Clowsly, of the Swan, burnt to death,
ii. 118; burial of, 124.
Coblentz, bombarded, ii. 293.
Coddon, persecution of, ii. 220, 238.
Coffee-houses, suppressed, ii. 243.
Colchester, Lord, ii. 323, 366.
Cole, John, of Baltimore, i. 234.
Colepeper, Colonel, found guilty of
manslaughter, i. 204; quarrels with
Lord Devonshire, 289.
Cologne, Elector of, his death, i.
348; election of his successor, 353,
357; ii. 28, 36, 50, 57; affairs of, i.
66, 69, 73.
Colvil, Sir Robert, marriage of his
widow, i. 347.
Compton, Bishop of London, parti-
culars respecting, i. 3, 6, 157, 159;
appears before the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners, 160, 164.
Condé, Prince of, mourning for, i.
205, 208.
Condon and Hawley apprehended for
robbing the Dutch mails, i.107,109.
Constable, William, arrives from Ja-
maica, ii. 67.
Constantinople, confusion at, ii. 65,
74; increase of the plague at, 93;
rumours from, 201.
Conway, Lady, her marriage, i. 67.
Cooper, trial of, i. 373.
Coprogli, Mustapha, ii. 94.
Corbett, Cornet, i. 74, 108.
Cornbury, Lord, i. 255; his mar-
riage, ii. 42.
380
INDEX.
Cornwall, Col. Henry, i. 302.
Cotton, Sir Robert, i. 15, 17, 29, 30.
Coventry, Francis, i. 132.
Mr. Secretary, dying, i.
198; buried, 205.
Sir William, death of, i.
131; bequests of, 136.
Craven, Earl of, particulars concern-
ing, i. 183.
Crewe, Nathaniel, Bishop of Dur-
ham, i. 6, 146; suspends several of
the Clergy for not reading the
King's declaration, ii. 62; expect-
ed in London, 105.
Crofts, Sir Herbert, his reasons for
reading the King's declaration,
i. 356.
-
Croissi, Marquis de, his altercation
with the Pope's Nuncio, ii. 155.
Croostade, reduction of mutineers at,
i. 358.
Cullen, Lord, upon the point of
death, i. 312.
Culliford, Mr. i. 227, 299; ii. 17,
207, 219, 239, 280.
Curthorp, Commissioner of the Ali-
enation Office, shoots himself, i. 378.
Customs, decline in the, i. 306; in-
crease in the, 350; ii. 146, 151.
Cutler, Sir John, i. 186, 216.
Dada, Mr. particulars respecting,i. 19.
D'Albeville, Marquis, i. 76, 169, 176,
193, 224, 321; arrival of, ii. 125;
his memorials to the States of Hol-
land, 180.
Daly, Judge, ii. 57.
Danby, Earl of, said to have seized
York, ii. 331.
Darby, Lady, i. 73.
Darcy, Mr. alluded to, i. 14.
Dartmouth, Lord, i. 63, 69, 182; his
activity in the King's service, ii.
125, 147; is to command the fleet,
153; inspects the fleet, 222, 234;
allusions to, 258, 264, 271; sails,
302; encounters a storm, 332.
Dauphin, French army commanded
by, ii. 149, 195, 199; report respect-
ing, 261.
D'Auverquerque, Henry, i. 310,
D'Avaux, Count, his memorials to
the States of Holland, i. 353, ii. 176.
Debaucheries and Sabbath-breakers,
proclamation against, ii. 14.
Declaration for religious toleration, ii.
260; proceedings in consequence,
S
i. 274, 285, 354, 360, 365, 380; ii.
2, 5, 7, 108, 117, 123, 130; ru-
mours respecting, 31.
De Croy, Prince, alluded to, i. 18.
Deering, Charles, plea of, ii. 29.
Delamere, Lord, particulars respect-
ing, i. 3, 7, 8, 11; trial and acquittal
of, 12, 14, 16; kisses the King's
hand, 22; reports respecting, ii.
308, 311, 314.
Denbigh, Lord, particulars respect-
ing, i. 93.
Denmark, festivities at the court of,
i. 327.
Prince, i. 269, 320; at Tun-
bridge, ii. 135.
Princess of, i, 167, 174;
indisposition of, 231; miscarries,
232, 346; death of her children,
236, 238; order for embellishing
her chapel, ii. 99; at Tunbridge,
135; report respecting, 176; va-
rious allusions to, 229, 249, 272;
her sudden departure, 338, 339;
entry into Oxford, 368.
Derby, Earl of, i. 339.
Deserters, punishment of, i. 351.
D'Estrées, Cardinal, ii. 254.
Devonshire, Lord, ball given by, i.
11; alluded to, 26, 201; his quarrel
with Colonel Colepeper, 289; pro-
secuted, 290; allusion to, 320.
D'Humieres, Marshal, ii. 307.
Dickinson, Mr. his arrival in London,
ii. 17, 18; ordered back to Ireland,
67;
alluded to, 220, 221, 238, 281.
Dixwell, Sir Basil, his marriage,i.347.
Dolben, Archbishop of York, his
death, i. 99, 105.
Domvile, Sir William, i. 226.
Dorchester, Countess, i. 23, 32, 35,
38, 42, 92; her miscarriage, 47.
Dorset, Earl of, ii. 129.
Lady, death of, i. 276; parti-
culars respecting, 281.
Douglass, Captain, accidentally shot,
ii. 352.
Dover, Lord, i. 56, 62, 79, 80. 219,
344; robbery at his house, ii. 187;
made governor of Portsmouth, 340.
Downs, fleet in the, i. 353, 359; re-
port of a French fleet there, 374,
378.
Drawing-room, at Whitehall, ii. 253.
Drumlanrig, Earl of, ii. 337.
Drummond, Lieut. Gen. i. 52, 91,
96.
O
INDEX.
Dryden, lines on, i. 318.
Dumblaine, Lord, i. 77.
Dunbar, Lord, i. 313.
Dunbarton, Lord, i. 122, 129; advo-
cates Lord Devonshire's cause,291;
alluded to, 312, 313.
Dunkirk and Calais to be garrisoned
by Swiss, ii. 150.
Dutch demand satisfaction of the
British government on account of
a pamphlet, i. 346; they fit out a
fleet, ii. 130, 139, 141, 154; sur-
mises respecting its destination,
142; send an ambassador to desire
Louis to take off the new imposi-
tions on their commodities, 148;
their fleet and army, 158; deserted
by the English seamen, 171; me-
morials of the French and English
envoys to their States, 176; their
ambassador arrives in London,
183; fleet puts to sea, 191; Dutch
expected to invade England, 218,
219, 223; various rumours respect-
ing, 226, 231, 234, 256; loss of in a
storm, 270; put into Torbay, 278;
land, 280; proceedings at Exeter,
291.
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mails robbed, i. 101; detec-
tion of the thieves, 107, 109.
officers, released, ii. 349.
Dutton, Sir Richard, cause between
him and Sir John Witham, i. 369.
Dyker, trial of, i. 372.
Dykevelt, particulars respecting, i.
242; speculations on his coming to
England, 246, 255; with the King,
248; his conduct at court, 288.
Eagle, caught at Paris, ii. 58.
Earnley, Sir John, Chancellor of the
Exchequer, i 183, 212, 219.
Earthquakes in Italy, i. 381; ii. 53;
at Smyrna, 134, 138.
East India Company, affairs of the,
ii. 119.
Ecclesiastical Commission appointed,
i. 144; proceedings of the Com-
missioners, 159, 164, 172, 177;
change in, 187; opening of, 198;
Commissioners sit at Whitehall in
the case of Magdalen College, Ox-
ford, 330; meeting of the Com-
missioners to receive the returns
made by Chancellors and Arch-
deacons about the King's Declara-
GE
381
tion, ii. 123; letter from Sprat,
Bishop of Rochester, 137.
Edinburgh, disturbances at, i. 43.
Edwards, Sir Francis, i. 303.
Edwynne, Sir H. named for Sheriff
of London, ii. 76, 150.
Eeds, Dr. fined for sedition, i. 195.
Eland, Lord, cuts off Molloy's hand,
i. 301.
Elderen, Baron de, elected Prince
and Bishop of Liege, ii. 122,
125.
Elections, canvassing for, ii. 187.
Ellis, account of the family of, i. ix.
Mr. J. i. 115, 244; breaks his
arm, ii. 229.
Peter, particulars respecting, i.
20.
Philip, i. 53, 68, 93, 103, 116,
123, 155, 207, 218, 238, 243;
preaches before the King, &c. 258;
ill health of, 266, 271; his interest
at court, ii. 47; holds confirma-
tions, 62; letter of, 145; seized, 356.
Samuel, i. 83, 103, 120, 187,
207, 216, 238, 274; proposes to
fill his brother's situation in Ire-
land, 244; made Marshal of the
King's Bench, 370, 373; security
required of him, ii. 16; allusion
to, 326.
Sir William, i. 68, 83, 103,
116, 187, 207, 216.
Welbore, i. 218.
Ely, Bishop of, ii. 211.
England, consternation in, ii. 228;
preparations for defence, 241.
Essex, Lady, ii. 79.
Eure, i. 93, 95.
Eustace, Sir Maurice, i. 50.
Exeter, Bishop of, ii. 303.
Earl of, ii. 320.
Exmouth, Dutch land at, ii. 282.
Fagel, Gaspar, his death, ii. 370.
Fairfax, Lord, i. 129.
Thomas, i. 103.
Falkland, Lord, particulars concern-
ing, i. 295.
Falmouth, letters from, ii. 324.
Farmer, Mr. his appointment as Pre-
sident of Magdalen College op-
posed, i. 272; proceedings thereon,
331, 333.
Feasher, General, his military ope-
rations, i. 362.
382
Fell, Dr. Bishop of Oxford, his death, Germany, death of the Empress
i. 139, 141.
Dowager of, i. 205, 208.
Empress of, supports the
interest of her brother as successor
to the Elector of Cologne, ii. 37.
Gerrard, Lord, particulars respecting,
i. 222.
INDEX.
Fenwick, Sir John, i. 241.
Ferguson, particulars relative to, ii.
298.
Feversham, Lord, i. 113; courts the
Duke of Newcastle's daughter,
317; allusions to, ii. 353, 364.
Fielding, Lady Mary, her expected
marriage, i. 393, 311.
Sir Charles, i. 12, 74, 107,
128.
William, warrant against
him, ii. 102.
Finch, Solicitor-general, i. 117, 361.
Firebrace, Sheriff, i. 336, 340; trial
between him and Brett, ii. 123.
Fireworks on the birth of the Prince
of Wales, ii. 52.
Fitton, Sir Alexander, i. 221, 222,
227; at the Spa at Wexford, ii. 113.
Fitz-James, Henry, particulars re-
specting, i. 209.
James, son of James II.
i. 48, 75, 208, 209, 215.
Flanders, military operations in, i.
77, 173.
Fox, Mr. alluded to, i. 14.
Sir Stephen, i. 219, 263, 269;
ii. 59.
Frampton, Bishop of Gloucester, ii.
175.
French, successes of the, ii. 242, 293,
312.
Protestants, charter granted
to, ii. 157.
Furstemberg, Cardinal, i. 348, 354;
ii. 36; opposed by the Empress
of Germany, as successor to the
Elector of Cologne, 37; loses the
election, 50, 57; in disgrace in
the court of France, 106; new
coaches making for, 133; receives
an injunction from the Pope, 170;
his coach attacked, ii. 217.
Count Emanuel of,
killed at Belgrade, ii. 187.
Gascoigne, Mr. ii. 83.
Sir Bernard, his death, i.
232.
Genege, Monsieur, i. 363.
Genoa, a prophecy respecting, ii. 88.
George, Prince, ii. 229, 337.
Gerard, Sir Gilbert, tried for misde-
meanours, i. 31.
Gibbons, the sculptor, i. 214.
Gifford, Dr. President of Magdalen
College, Oxford, i. 375; ii. 174.
Bishop, ii. 245.
Giles, Lieutenant of the Ordnance, i.
265.
Gloucester frigate, wreck of, ii. 42.
Gloucestershire, militia of, ii. 295,
299.
Godfrey, Colonel, ii. 324, 366.
Sir E. B. murder of, 30.
Godolphin, Lord, i. 182, 212, 219;
ii. 20, 46, 343.
Golconda, report concerning the
King of, ii. 71.
Gordon, Duke of, i. 53, 57.
Goring, Mrs. ii. 29.
Gower, William Leveson, his house
plundered, ii. 334.
Grafton, Duke of, kills Talbot in a
duel, i. 36, 39, 40; found guilty of
manslaughter, 43; alluded to, 71,
94, 270, 285; his arrival at the
Brill, 317; conveys the Queen of
Portugal to Lisbon, 320; arrives
with his fleet at Plymouth, 326;
various allusions to, ii. 323, 336,
357, 366.
Grahme, John, Lord Dartmouth's
Secretary, i. 95.
Grammont, Count de, his arrival in
England, ii. 5.
Grana, Marquis de, military opera-
tions of, i. 77.
Granadoe-shell, accident with a, i.
205.
Granard, Earl, ii. 227.
Lieut. Gen. particulars re-
specting, ii. 66.
Gray's Inn, fire at, i. 231.
Great Waradin, oxen and sheep in-
tercepted at, ii. 89.
Gregory, Judge, dismissed, i. 44.
Grey, Lord, i. 15, 213, 301; ii. 321.
Mr. i. 220.
Guyon, Madame, religious sect
founded by, ii. 38.
Gwyn, Francis, letters of, i. 171,
203, 254, 314.
INDEX.
Gwyn, Nell, anecdote of, i. 202;
dying, 264; her house at Wind-
sor, ii. 118.
Gwynne, Sir Roland, reported to
have landed in Wales, ii. 305, 311.
Haggerstone, Sir Thomas, i. 228.
Hales, Sir, E. i. 85, 100, 122; Lieute-
nant of the Tower, 297, 376; ii. 363.
Halifax, Marquis of, i. 21, 63, 67, 72,
131;"The Anatomy of an Equi-
valent," written by, ii. 172
Hall, Timothy, made Bishop of Ox-
ford, ii. 72, 76, 84; Mandamus for
a Doctor's degree gone to, 117.
Hamburgh taken possession of by
the Duke of Zell, i. 41.
Hamilton, Anthony, i. 226.
Captain, particulars of his
murder, i. 166.
Duke of, i. 51, 52, 69, 88,
91, 96, 112
Sir Robert, i. 50.
James, i. 79
Hampden, John, condemnation of,
i. 2; reprieved, 6, 8; pardoned by
the King, 32.
Harbord, William, summoned before
the Privy Council, i. 27; alluded
to, 163; ii. 313.
Harcott, Mr. retracts his promise,
ii. 56.
-
Hartstonge, Judge, i. 57.
Hatton, Dr. Vice Chancellor of Ox-
ford, i. 140.
Hawkins, Dr. turned out of his situa-
tion at the Tower, i. 376.
Hawley and Condon apprehended for
robbing the Dutch mails, i. 107, 109.
Hayes, Sir James, assaulted by an
Irishman, i. 14.
Heath, Baron, knighted, i. 179.
Hendrey, William, i. 299.
Herbert, Admiral, i. 201, 267, 282:
declared Vice-admiral of North
Holland, ii. 160; commands the
Dutch fleet, 228, 232, 310.
Chief Justice, particulars
respecting, i. 101, 104, 117, 146,
230, 282; lease of the manor of
Oatlands granted to, ii. 60; allu-
sion to, 268.
Lady, ii. 15.
Hewet, Sir G. i. 94 ; ii. 337.
Hewett, Sir George, ii. 343.
Hewetson, Thomas, i. 309.
Hill's printing office, burned, ii. 351.
383
Hind and Panther, lines on the au-
thor of, i. 318.
Hoare, Mr. the goldsmith, ii. 286.
Holford, William, i. 125.
Holland, French gazettes interdicted
in, i. 87; fleet fitted out by, 130,
139, 141, 154; surmises respect-
ing its destination, 142; ambassa-
dor sent by Louis XIV. 148; the
fleet and army in readiness, 158;
deserted by the English seamen,
171; memorials of the French and
English envoys in, 176; arrival of
the ambassador in London, 183;
their fleet at sea, 191.
Holloway, Justice, his charge to the
grand jury, i. 370, 378; dismissed,
ii. 26, 30.
Holt, Mr. appointed Recorder, i. 44,
101.
Holton, Dr. Procurator of Magdalen
College, Oxford, i. 375.
Hook, Nathaniel, pardoned by the
King, i. 371.
Hooper, Dr. particulars respecting,
i. 148.
Hopewell, the, plundered by a pirate,
1. 330.
Hough, Dr. John, i. 273, 297, 310;
ii. 174, 248.
Hounslow, army assembled at, i. 125,
271; execution of a deserter at,
352.
Howard, Bernard, ii. 108, 309, 326.
Howard, Lord Thomas, ii. 311
Howard, Wm. 3rd Lord, i. 15.
Howard, Mr. i. 313.
Howard, Sir Philip, i. 36, 99; death
of, 105.
Hungary, military operations in, i.
362, 368; ii. 27, 63, 74, 134, 140.
Hunningen, new fort at, i. 176, 189.
Hunsdon, Lord, ii. 15, 29.
Huntingdon, Earl of, 181; made
Lord Lieut. of Leicestershire, 338;
his regiment, ii. 283, 324.
Hyde Park, king reviews his troops
in, i. 355.
Viscount, i. 212.
IRELAND, state of, i. 294, 298; de-
cline of the revenue in, 306; in-
crease of the revenues of, 350; ii.
146, 151; reported massacre in,
325.
Irish troops, disorderly conduct of,
255.
384
INDEX.
Ironside, Gilbert, i. 375; his letter
to Lord Chancellor Jefferies, ii. 80.
Isles, Sir John, proposed for Lord
Mayor of London, ii. 150.
Ivy, Lady, and Mr. Neale, trial of,
ii. 14, 29.
James II. exercises his troops, i. 60;
goes hunting, 82, 111; about to go
to Chatham,108, 119; dines in Lord
Dunbarton's tent, 122; appoints
an ecclesiastical commission, 144;
his compliment to the Queen,
153; reprimands the Lord Mayor
for permitting bonfires on the 5th
of November, 181; his liberality
to Lord Rochester, 212; brass sta-
tue of, erected at Whitehall, 214;
his conduct to Lord Clarendon,
247; hurt in the eye, 251; his
closeting custom continued, 265;
visits Richmond frequently, 271;
his conduct towards the two Uni-
versities, 272; receives addresses
from Dissenters, 274, 285; has the
gout, 293; his determination to
repeal the laws against Catho-
lics, 302; promotes the officers of
the guards, 325'; his intended jour-
ney, 333; Aldermen of London
removed by, 335; his progress from
Windsor, 336; his intentions in
regard to magistrates and Corpora-
tions, 342; his Queen to lie in
at St. James's, 374; birth of his
son, 352; sends seven Bishops pri-
soners to the Tower, 354; reviews
his troops in Hyde Park, 355; cir-
cumstances connected with the
reading his declaration, 356; par-
dons Nathaniel Hook, 371; hunts
in Waltham forest, 380; at Houns-
low, ii. 1; causes the seven Bi-
shops to be tried, 7; desires per-
sons holding office to come into
Parliament, 18; justices introduc-
ed to, 55; views his squadron at the
Nore, 63; dines at the camp, 116;
inspects his squadron at Ports-
mouth, 128; his council at Wind-
sor, 138; orders all officers and
soldiers to their quarters, 139;
dines with the Lord Chancellor,
139; fears an invasion from the
Dutch, 142; fits out ships, ib.;
holds a council at Windsor about
calling a Parliament, 144; his na-
val preparations, 153, 154; his in-
troduction of Irishmen into the
English army, 168; report respect-
ing the Queen, 176; the officers
of the Duke of Berwick's regiment
tried by his order, 167, 184; pre-
sent at a cabinet council, 192:
goes to Chatham, 196, 198; sends
for the Bishops, 201; sensible of
his error on account of, 202; de-
clarations of, 209, 214; vacillation,
212; grants a general pardon, 214;
waited on by the Lord Mayor, 216;
anecdote of, 218; preparations to
oppose the Dutch, 220; procla-
mation of, 223; visit of the Bi-
shops to, 224; retraces his steps,
226; restores the City charter, 231;
resolves to march against the
Dutch in person, 233; undertakes
to prove the Prince of Wales's
birth, 236; suppresses the coffee-
houses, 243; exercises his troops,
246; summons the judges, 256;
his proclamation, 273; Bishops
summoned to attend him, ib.;
goes to Windsor, 301; to Salis-
bury, 305; petition to, 307; at
Sarum, 310; his proclamation,
327; his indisposition, iʊ.; holds
a council of war, 329; returns to
Whitehall, 336; anecdote of, 337;
sends for the Lords, 340; follows
the Queen to France, 345; letter
from, 357; his return to London,
362; his adventure at Feversham,
363.
Jefferies, John, marriage of, ii. 59
Lord Chancellor, his illness,
i. 37; alluded to, 91, 146, 152, 298;
ii. 33; made Lord Lieutenant of
Salop, 338; Ironside's letter to him
respecting the Chancellorship of
Oxford University, ii. 80; Queen
dines with him, 131; his attempt-
ed escape, 354; his death, 355.
Jenkins, Sir Leoline, i. 192.
Jenner, Baron, i. 379.
Sir T. appointed judge, i. 44.
Johnson, Judge, i. 57.
.
Samuel, i. 190, 197.
Jones, Dean, i. 128, 133.
Chief Justice, i. 101, 104.
Mr. i. 109.
K
:
·
Judges, charges of, respecting the
seven Bishops, ii. 109,
Justices of the Peace, proceedings of
INDEX.
the committee of council for the in-
spection of, i. 192.
Keightly, Mr. i. 50, 97, 159.
Capt. ii. 338.
Kendall, James, his journey to Spa,
i. 314.
Kensham, bridge of, near Bristol, ii.
335.
.
Kent, Mr. ii. 19.
Keyserlauter, capture of, ii. 204.
Kiffin, Alderman, i. 340.
Killegrew, Mrs. ii. 15.
Kilmore, Bishop of, ii. 113.
Kingdon, Lemuel, particulars respect-
ing, i. 5, 12, 39; his death, 45, 50.
King's Bench, complaint against the
exactions of the Marshal of the, i.
370; trial of Dyker and Cooper
at, 372; new Marshal of, 373;
proceedings in, ii. 3; trial between
Firebrace and Brett at, 123.
Kingston, Lord, i. 62.
Kinsale, grant of lands at, i. 78.
Kirk, Colonel, wounds a waterman,
ii. 132; reports respecting him,
309, 326.
!
Kirke, Lieutenant-General, ii. 338.
Knox, Alderman, i. 64.
La Mar & Blamer, proceedings in
the court of King's Bench respect-
ing, ii. 3.
Lamplugh, Dr. Thomas, i. 100, ii.
290.
Lancer, Sir John, ii. 368.
Languedoc, shower of caterpillars,
&c. in, ii. 106.
Larvarding, Marquis de, his conduct
at Rome, i. 359.
Law officers, change of, ii. 22.
Lawrence, Sir John, i. 335.
Leadenhall market, fire in, ii. 303.
Legge, Will, governor of Kingsale, i.
67, 94.
Lenous,Capt. committed to Newgate,
ii. 237.
L'Estrange, Sir Robert, committed to
Newgate, ii. 367.
Levett, Dr. i. 149.
Levet, John, alluded to, i. 17.
Levinz, Judge, dismissed, i. 44;
counsel for the Bishops, 380.
Lexham, Captain, bill against, ii.
303.
Lichfield, Earl of, particulars respect-
ing, i. 126.
VOL. II.
385
Liege, election of, ii. 122, 125.
Lincoln, Earl of, indicts pawnbrokers
as receivers of stolen goods, i. 369.
Littleton, Major, killed in a duel, ii.
368.
Lloyd, Dr. John, made Bishop of
St. David's, i. 257.
Lockhart, Sir George, i. 96.
London, disturbances near, i. 315,
322, 323; changes in the magis-
tracy of, 335; address of the City
to the King, ii. 213; consternation
in, 226; city charter restored, 230;
great confusion in, 235; mass-
houses demolished, 240; coffee-
houses suppressed, 243; Aldermen
restored, 244; trained bands, 247;
Chapels destroyed, 269, 347, 350;
riotous proceedings in, 351; alarm
in, 356.
A
Bishop of, ii. 224, 225;
restored, 227.
Longford, Lord, i. 47, 232; ii. 221.
Lorne, Lord, ii. 284, 320.
Lorraine, Duchess of, ii. 27; follows
the Duke to his army, 140.
Duke of, his military ope-
rations, i, 162, 328, 332, 341, 368;
ii. 140, 188, 193; illness of, 382;
ii. 16, 27; operation upon, 36;
his convalescence, 89; curious
character of, 102; his treaty with
the Turks, 174.
Louis XIV. indisposition of, i. 45,
54, 60, 64, 69, 92, 187, 189, 194,
197, 190, 200, 208; his military
operations in Flanders, 77; seizes
Tangier, 123; his haughty conduct
to the Pope, 359; rumours
specting his health, 367; reports
of his death, 374, 378; his statue
at Paris, ii. 58; promises toleration
to his emigrant Protestant sub-
jects, 66; raises troops, 125, 128;
acquaints James II. with the de-
signs of the Dutch, 142; military
preparations made by, 143; ex-
postulates with the Dutch, 147.
Louth, Lord, i. 226.
Louthall, Mr. ii. 15, 29.
Lovelace, Lord, and his followers
taken, ii. 294, 302, 320.
Loveseto, C. his declaration re-
specting the Dutch fleet, ii. 276.
Lower, Dr. particulars respecting, i.
70, 346.
re-
Kal
Lowridge, Major, killed, ii. 295.
2 c
386
INDEX.
Lowther, Sir John, i. 297.
Lloyd, Captain, ii. 335.
Lucy, Captain, marriage of his wi-
dow, i. 67, 86.
Lumley, Lord, ii. 320.
Luttrell, Simon, i. 227.
Lutwich, Serjeant, i. 101, 104.
Lysons' Magna Britannia, ii. 294.
Macarty, General, his arrival in Lon-
don, i. 266.
Justice, i. 132.
C
Macclesfield, Lord, particulars re-
specting, i. 119; ii. 103, 232, 320.
Macdonnels and Mackintoshes, skir-
mishes between, ii. 185.
M'Gennish, Murtagh, murders Cap-
tain Hamilton, i. 166.
Mackay, a general officer, ii. 284.
Madox, Philip, i. 115.
Magdalen College, its opposition to
the King's mandamus, i. 272;
case of brought before the Eccle-
siastical Commission, 330, 333;
deferred, 375; verses on the birth
of the Prince expected from, ii. 4;
examination of its treasury, 31; se-
cluded members restored to, 202,
227, 245, 247.
Mahomet the Fourth, particulars re-
specting, ii. 95.
Maintenon, Madame, i. 92.
Manchester, Earl of, ii. 320.
Mansuete, Père, alluded to, i. 47, 68,
155.
Mantua, Duke, bet between him and
the Duke of Bavaria, ii. 193, 216.
Marriages without licences prohibit-
ed by the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioners, i. 172.
Mason, Sir Richard, marriage of his
daughter, ii. 99.
Massey, Dean of Christchurch, i.
205, 210, 217.
Mazarin, Duchess of, particulars re-
specting. i. 322; goes down the
Thames in an East Indiaman, ii.86.
Melfort, Lord, i. 240; ii. 340.
Melvill, Mr. i. 206.
Merideth, i. 85.
Mews, Dr. Bishop of Winchester,
ii. 211.
Middleton, i. 126.
Lord, i. 154, 182.
Milan, alarm of the Governor of, i.
189.
Miller, Colonel John, accident of, ii.
96; his death, 104.
Modena, Duchess of, mourning for,
i. 327.
Duke of, ii. 105.
Molesworth, Colonel, arrives from
Jamaica, ii. 70.
-
Molloy, his hand cut off by Lord
Eland, i. 301.
Molyneux, Lord, made Lord Lieu-
tenant of Lancashire, i. 339.
Monmouth, Duke of, personated by
an impostor, i. 87, 168, 177.
Monmouthians, missing, ii. 233.
Montagu House, destroyed by fire,
i. 25.
Lord, particulars respect-
ing, i. 26, 88, 104, 154, 157, 159,
259, 152, 156.
C
Montgomery, Lord, i. 291.
Moor and Thomas, the bankers, ii.
235.
Moray, Earl of, i. 46; appointed
Lord High Commissioner, 50, 57,
69, 96.
Mordaunt, Lord, i. 77; his arrival in
London, ii. 52; allusions to, 228,
297, 320.
Morden, Mr. i. 335.
-
Moreton, Bishop of Kildare, i. 36.
Morgan, Sir John, i. 302.
Morosini, Doge of Venice, ii. 121; re-
covers Candia, 126; expected to take
part of the island of Negropont, 165.
Morpeth, Lord, marriage of, ii. 45.
Morton, Dr. suspended, ii. 62.
Mosson, Alderman, i. 340.
Mountjoy, Lord, his expedition to
Hungary, i. 74, 89.
Moxon, killed in a duel, i. 40.
Mulgrave, Earl of, i. 59; his mar-
riage, 67, 70; arrives in London,
72, 87; alluded to, 181, 187, 200,
344.
Mulys, Mr. ii. 358.
Muscovy, Envoy of, at the Hague, i.
332.
Musgrave, Philip, i. 97.
Sir Christopher, i. 202,
259, 313, 315.
Nagle, Judge, i. 57.
Sir Richard, i. 227.
Naples, destruction at, i. 381; ii. 53.
Narborough, Sir John, his expedi-
tion to Jamaica to recover the
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INDEX.
387
treasure from a Spanish galleon, i.
325; ii. 30; report of his death,
52, 62; his heart brought to Eng
land, 67; allusion to, 217.
Navy Commission, change of, i. 65,
73, 82.
Neale, Mr. trial of, ii. 14, 29; his
loss by fire, 15, 35.
Negropont, siege of, ii. 165; taking
of, 216.
Netterville, Lord Viscount, i. 226.
Nevill, Judge, i. 104.
Newburg, Princess of, i. 270.
Newcastle, Duke of, particulars re-
specting, i. 113, 317; Lord Lieu-
tenant of Yorkshire, ii. 241.
Duchess, i. 317.
Newḍigate, Sir Richard, i. 173.
Newport, Lord, i. 339.
News-writer, cudgelled, ii. 213.
Nieuport, town of, in Flanders, ii.274.
Norfolk, Duke of, i. 125.
Duchess of, i. 204.
Northampton, Earl of, ii. 368.
Northumberland, Duke of, his mar-
riage, i. 67; goes abroad, 71, 86;
86;
returns, 94; allusion to, ii. 346.
Lady, particulars
respecting, i. 105; comes to court,
———
110.
Norwich, remarks on the city of, ii.
48.
Nottingham, declaration of the
nobles and gentry, &c. at, ii. 314.
Earl of, ii. 77, 343.
Nugent, Captain, committed to New-
gate, ii. 366.
Judge, i. 57.
Oates in the pillory, i. 340.
Oatlands, manor of, ii. 60.
O'Bryen, Lord Henry, lost in the
Gloucester frigate, ii. 42.
Lady, marriage of, ii. 42.
Offley, Mr. i. 15, 29, 30.
Oldish, Dr. i. 187.
Orange, Prince of, his military ope-
rations, i. 46, 77, 142; alluded to,
54, 64, 250; reported illness of,
134; expected at the Hague, 332;
rumours respecting, ii. 56; his camp
near Mastricht, 122; his designs
supposed to be favoured by Eng-
lish nobility, 142; commands the
Dutch army, 148; King of Sweden
promises alliance to, 171; his fleet,
218, 223; declarations of, 236, 272,
296; his speech to the States, 251;
answer, 252; reported illness, 262;
encounters a storm, 266; lands at
Torbay, 280; proceeds to Exeter,
288; troops to oppose, 300; seizes
the King's money, 302; proceed-
ings at Bridgewater, 312; at Win-
canton, 232; address to, 356; pro-
posal from, 353; at St. James's, 373.
Orange, Princess of, income assigned
to her, 188.
Orleans, Duke of, commands the
French army, ii. 195.
Ormond, first Duke of, his illness, 1,
10, 17, 28; alluded to, 35, 93, 103,
110, 132, 141, 152, 195, 207, 224,
235; letter of his, 180, 262, 286,
291, 309, 310; death of, ii. 65, 80;
remarkable circumstance attend-
ing his death, 78; details respect-
ing, 90; his will, 92.
Orphans' Fund, increased by fines, i.
326.
Orto, tragical occurrence at, ii. 41.
Ossory, Lord, i. 19, 34, 39, 42, 50, 65,
77, 93, 95, 103, 110, 117, 132, 142,
157, 248, 249, 262, 263, 286; 292;
becomes Duke of Ormond, by the
death of his father, ii. 65; elected
Chancellor of the University of
Oxford, 76, 80; journey of, 79;
waits on the King, 92; his instal-
lation dinner, 132, 141; various
allusions to, 219, 228, 242, 259,
337,342.
Ossory, Countess, i. 20, 73; her
death, ii. 347, 349, 358.
Ousely, Capt. singular proceeding of,
ii. 212.
Oxford, Lord, i. 49, 259.
University, deputation sent
by, ii. 129.
Paine, Dr. ii. 129.
Nevill, i. 117.
Paley, Mr. i. 193.
Papillon, Mr. i. 335.
Papists, put out of office, ii. 346.
Parker, Dr. particulars respecting, i.
106; succeeds to the bishoprick of
Oxford, 141.
Parliament, writs for, stopped, ii. 220;
petition for a free one, 301, 333.
Parma, Duke of, ii. 205, 214.
Parsons, Mr. i. 336.
2 C 2
388
INDEX.
Paston, Capt. trial of, ii. 167, 184.
Patrick, Dr. Simon, i. 106.
Pawnbrokers tried at Westminster
Hall, as receivers of stolen goods,
i. 369.
Peers, reported promotion of, 59, 60.
Pemberton, Sir Francis, i. 360.
Pembroke, Countess of, ii. 116.
Lord, i. 84; marriage of
his daughter, ii. 59.
Penn, the Quaker, report respecting,
ii. 211; bailed, 356.
Sir William, i. 269; ii. 15.
Pepys, Samuel, i. 66, 73, 82, 93, 95,
224, 271.
Perth, Lord, i. 43, 46, 51, 154.
Peterborough, Earl of, i. 182, 201;
ii. 334.
Petre, Father Edward, i. 20, 68, 196;
false report of his being fired at,ii.71.
Peyton, Sir Robert, seized at Rotter-
dam, i. 176.
Philips, Sir Ambrose, i. 101.
Philipsburgh, siege of, ii. 204; re-
ports from, 246, 269, 274.
Phipps, Sir William, particulars re-
specting, i. 295; his expedition to
Jamaica, 325.
Pierrepont, Evelyn, his expected mar-
riage, i. 293, 311.
Pilkington's trial, account of, i. 135.
Pillow, valuable necklace found in
one, i. 205.
Piombino, Prince of, particulars re-
specting, i. 92.
Plague, at Constantinople, ii. 93.
Plantation act, remarks on, i. 307.
Plettenburgh, Dean, chosen Bishop
of Munster, ii. 88.
Poland, king of, his reported death,
ii. 217.
Pollexfen, Mr. particulars concerning
i. 361.
Poole, Lord, i. 129.
Pope, declaration against, ii. 214.
Portsmouth, Duchess of, i. 178; re-
turns to France, ii. 105.
Portugal, late Queen of, i. 327.
Queen of, her voyage to
Lisbon, i. 320, 326; birth of her
son, ii. 173.
Povey, comptroller, i. 265.
Powell, Judge, dismissed, ii. 26, 30.
Mr. i. 277.
Powis, Lord, i. 149, 182, 198, 212,
223, 286.
Powis, Marchioness, i. 352; ii, 55,
115.
Solicitor-general, i. 117 ; ii. 3.
Prance's accusation of Vernatt, i. 30,
109; put in the pillory, 123.
Prebeck, elected Bishop of Hilde-
sheime, ii. 74.
Preston, Lord, i. 21, 259; made Lord
Lieutenant of Cumberland, 338;
alluded to, ii, 258, 259, 266, 267.
Price, Thomas, i. 141.
Prideaux, Dr. Humphrey, i. 218;
letter of, ii. 47; account of, 49.
Privy councillors, new, ii. 23, 32;
absent, 211.
Pudsey, Sir
Purcell, Major, i. 302.
Purefoy, Mr. ii. 304.
i. 107.
"
Queensberry, duke of, i. 47, 51, 52,
57, 69.
Quietists, account of, ii. 38.
Radnor, Earl of, bails Vincent, ii. 15.
alluded to, 320.
Radzivil, Princess of, ii. 87; her mar-
riage with the Prince of Newburg,
164.
Ranelagh, Lord, ii. 19.
Rapin, extracts from, ii. 236, 237,
254, 345, 351, 353, 355, 364.
Ratcliffe, Sir Francis, i. 298, 311.
Reading, skirmish at, ii. 346.
Red Lion fields, disturbances at, i. 315,
322, 323.
Reeves, Sir Richard, i. 294.
Reresby, Sir John, his account of the
King's arrest of the seven Bishops,
i. 354,
extracts from his Memoirs,
ii. 277, 314, 331.
Reynolds, Judge, i. 57.
Rice, Judge, i. 57.
Rich, Sir Peter, ii. 245.
Robinson, William, i. 125, 225, 259,
265.
Rochester, Earl of, i. 39, 91, 130, 146,
168, 170, 171, 309; resigns the
office of Lord Treasurer, 211, 219,
223; his journey to Spa, 314.
Lady, illness of, i. 259.
Roe, Anthony, ii. 324.
Roman Catholics, declaration respect-
ing, ii. 209.
Rome, proceedings relative to ambas-
sadors at, i. 358; anecdote of the
INDEX.
389
Queen of Sweden, while there,
ii. 40.
Roos, Lord, afterwards earl of Rut-
land, ii. 322.
Roscommon, Lady, ii. 257.
Ross, Archbishop of St. Andrews, i.
72.
Rotherham, Judge, his charge to the
grand jury, ii. 101, 109.
Rowe, Anthony, ii. 313.
Roy, Count de, arrives from Den-
mark, i. 322.
Russell, Lady, ii. 190.
Rustat, Tobias, his loyalty, 214.
Rutland, Duke of, ii. 321.
Earl of, i. 338.
St. Albans, Duke of, i. 209; about
to go to Hungary, 264.
St. Johns, Dr. arrives from the East
Indies, ii. 119, 186.
Salisbury, forces move towards, ii.
286; council of war at, 329.
Plain, expected battle on,
ii. 320.
i. 157.
Lord, taken by the Turks,
Sally, Admiral, distinctions shown
him by the King, i. 143.
Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury,
i. 145.
Sandford, Mr. attack on his chapel,
i. 111, 118.
Sangrove, Mr. ii. 17.
Sanky, Captain, i. 218.
Sarsefield, Colonel, ii. 329.
Sarsfield, Patrick, particulars con-
cerning, i. 58, 67.
Savile, Henry, goes to Paris, i. 297.
Sawyer, Sir Robert, i. 118, 150, 223,
361.
Saxony, Elector, of, ii. 246; report
respecting, 275.
Saxton the informer, i. 14; prose-
cuted for perjury, &c. 17, 22, 29,
31.
Scarborough, Mayor of, tossed in a
blanket, ii. 169, 212, 225.
Sir Charles, i. 346.
Scherffemberg, Count of, killed at
Belgrade, ii. 187.
Schomberg, General, ii. 183, 200.
Marshal de, i. 18. ii.
310.
Schombergh, Meinhardt, ii. 330.
Scotland, rumours from, ii. 284.
Scroggs, Sir William, i. 192.
Seditious Newspapers, suppression
of, i. 23.
Segrave, Mr. James, i. 180.
Senelaij, Mr. de, i. 54.
Seymour, Sir Edward, ii. 327.
Shaftesbury, Earl of, i. 191.
Sharp, Archbishop of St. Andrew's,
murdered, ii. 298.
Dr. John, i. 95, 136, 161, 165.
Shaw, William, illness of, i. 39, 42;
alluded to, 130, 132; letters of,
151; ii. 229.
-
Sheldon, Mr. Daniel, ii. 61.
Sheridan, Thomas, declared Papist,
CON
126; alluded to, 196, 226, 371.
Shorter, Sir John, meets with an ac-
cident, ii. 150, 157; death of, 161,
182.
Sir Robert, i. 334, 340.
Shrewsbury, Earl of, i. 332; ii. 227,
297, 320.
Sidney, Colonel, ii. 232; his books,
264.
Silverlock, Mr. marriage of, ii. 13.
Sisson, Thomas, i. 128.
Skelton, 'Colonel, made Lieutenant
of the Tower, ii. 340; displaced,
346.
Mr. i. 168, 176, 193, 197.
confined in the Tower, ii. 199, 212;
letters of, 237.
Slingsby, Mr. i. 79, 80.
Small-pox, prevalence of, ii. 46.
Smith, Valentine, i. 294.
William, i. 170; ii. 221.
Smyrna, earthquake and fire at, ii.
134, 138.
Soames, Sir William, departure of, i.
35; his death, 143.
Sobieski, Prince of Poland, ii. 87;
his character of the Duke of Lor-
raine, 110.
Soliman the Third, ii. 95, 106.
Somers, Lord, ii. 6.
Somerset, Duke of, i. 312, 317, 338.
South, Dr. i. 148, 152.
Southeske, Lord, disgraceful conduct.
of, i. 55.
Southwell, Robert, i. 81, 114, 374;
ii. 287, 359.
Spa, journey to, i. 314.
Spain, depreciation of the coin of,
i. 181.
Spanish frigate arrived with money,
i. 185.
INDEX.
390
Spanish galleon, recovery of treasure
from, i. 294, 344; ii. 67.
Sparrow, Mr. i. 141.
Speake, Mr. fined, i. 194.
Spencer, Charles, character of, i. 256.
Lord, i. 75; his improper
conduct at Bury, 256; his death,
ii. 165, 173.
Sprat, Thomas, Bishop of Rochester,
i. 105, 146; letter containing an
account of the Duke of Bucking-
ham's death addressed to, 276; re-
fuses to act any more in the Ec-
clesiastical Commission, 137.
Stamford's chapel, riot at, i. 111, 118.
Stanhope, Lady Betty, particulars re-
specting, i. 73.
Staremberg, Count, killed at Bel-
grade, ii. 174, 187.
Starenberg, Baron, the Dutch Am-
bassador's Secretary at Paris, i. 68.
Stirr, Count, with the Dutch fleet,
i. 127.
Stockton, swords seized at, i. 119.
Strangways, Colonel, ii. 218.
Strickland, Admiral, ordered to watch
Admiral Canary's fleet at Spithead,
i. 127; going to Algiers, 158;
fleet in the Downs under his com-
mand, 359.
Lady, i. 353.
Stringer, Sir Thomas, ii, 256, 264.
Strong, Mr. i. 124, 125; ii. 220, 221.
Styles, Dr. i. 265.
Sumners, Mr. R. elected Recorder,
ii. 264.
Sunderland, Lady, ii. 226, 258.
Lord, i. 56, 91, 104, 110,
146, 181, 212, 265, 301; ii. 35;
death of his son, ii. 173; his extra-
vagance, 171; his disgrace, 237,266,
970.
Sweden, King of, promises alliance
with the Prince of Orange, ii. 171.
and France, rumoured nego-
tiation between, ii. 39.
Sydney, Harry, particulars respecting,
i. 142; ii. 228, 320.
Sympson, G. alluded to, i. 49, 98,
250.
Talbot, Mr. killed in a duel, i. 37,
39, 40.
Talbott, Sir William, i. 49, 226.
Talon, Mons. treatise in refutation
of, i. 363; excommunicated by the
Pope, ii. 128; his speech against
the Pope's conduct, 205.
Tangier, seizure of by Louis XIV.
123.
Tarbat, Lord Viscount, particulars
respecting, i. 51.
Tekeli, Count, i. 60; ii. 87.
Temple, Sir John, i. 346.
Tenison, Dr. i. 28.
Tent, Sir Hugh, i. 132.
Teynham, Lord, ii. 364.
Thanet, Earl of, i. 338.
Thessalonica, pillage of, i. 382.
Thicknesse, Mrs. i. 61, 70.
Thistle, order of the, i. 286.
Thomond, Earl of, ii. 43.
Thompson, Alderman, named for
Sheriff of London, ii. 150.
Thurles, Lord, i. 262.
Thynne, James, i. 132.
Tichborne, Sir Henry, i. 313, 315.
Tint, Sir Creswell, ii. 312.
Tipping, Mr. fined, ii. 13, 30.
Tisdall, Mr. James, ii. 286.
Titus, Silas, particulars concerning,
ii. 23.
Toleration, declaration for a general
order for, i. 260, 267, 268; King
receives addresses of Dissenters in
consequence, 274, 285; proceed-
ings arising from, 354, 360, 365,
380; ii. 2, 5, 7, 108, 117; rumours
respecting, 31, 51, 123, 130.
Topham, Sir John, serjeant at arms,
i. 207.
Tottenham-court, apparition at, ii. 97.
Trained bands, ii. 247, 352.
Transylvania, Prince of, his submis-
sion to the emperor, i. 61.
Treby, Sir George, ii. 6.
Trelawney, Colonel, ii. 338.
Sir Jonathan, Bishop, i.
4; letter of, 233.
Trenchard, Thomas, i. 194.
Trevor, Sir John, i. 264; made Privy
Councillor, 23.
Trindall, Mr. i. 238, 241, 248.
Trinder, Serjeant, ii. 26, 30, 72, 83.
Trumbull, Sir William, i, 132, 157,
159, 176, 193.
Trynder, Mr. ii. 221.
Tudor, Lady Mary, approaching mar-
riage of, i. 293.
Tufton, Hon. Sackville, particulars
respecting, i. 271.
Turks, propositions of peace to, ii.
PA NË
INDEX.
57; confusion among the, 64, 69;
prophecy current among, 89; con-
ditions of the, 166; treaty of the
Duke of Lorraine with, 174.
Turner, Francis, Bishop of Ely, i. 4.
Tuscany, Prince of, his marriage,ii.38.
Tyrconnell, Lord, particulars respect-
ing, i. 9, 11, 18, 31, 57, 63, 66, 73,
97, 153, 196, 206, 220; sets out for
Ireland, 225, 229; report of his
being driven back to Weston, 237;
arrives in Ireland, 245; meets the
King at Salop, 344; allusion to, ii.
227.
Uniformity, acts of, ii. 209.
Upmar, the famous kidnapper, con-
victed, ii. 13.
Vane, Sir Christopher, ii. 24.
Van Zittens, the Dutch ambassador,
has audience with the King, i. 53;
illness of, 89; alluded to, 255.
Vernatt, accused by Prance of mur-
der, i. 30; admitted to bail, 31.
Vernon, Colonel, i. 232.
Villars, Mons. de, ii. 75.
Villeroy, Duc de, expected from
France, i. 54.
Vincent, Parson, apprehended as a
rebel, i. 32 ; committed to Newgate,
43.
Walter, proceedings against,
ii. 15.
Viner, Sir Robert, his death, ii. 182;
buried, 197.
Wainwright, Dr. ii. 129.
Walachia, Prince of, submits to the
Emperor of Germany, ii. 90.
Waldeck, Prince of, ii. 183.
Waldgrave, Lord, made Lord Lieut.
of Somersetshire, i. 338.
Wales, reports from, ii. 305.
Prince of, his birth, i. 348, 351,
364; household of, 352; rejoicing at
Dublin on his birth, 379; prayed
for, ii. 25; illness of, 32, 99; pre-
sents from the Pope of Rome for,
54; brought to the King, with
a petition respecting Hackney
coaches and Foundlings, 54; is
very weakly, 82; visited by their
Majesties at Richmond, 98; indis-
position of, 107; wet-nurse pro-
cured for, 108, 114; grant for the
·
391
at
use of, 116; removed to Windsor,
118; notice respecting his health,
143; proofs of his birth, 236,
257, 272. christened, 254;
Portsmouth, 306, 311, 327; goes
to France, 345, 367.
Walgrave, Sir Henry, particulars re-
specting, i. 24.
Walker, Obadiah, master of Univer-
sity College, i. 55, ii. 4; affronts to,
102, 115.
Waller, Sir William, ii. 366.
Wallis, Dr. Professor of geometry at
Magdalen College, Oxford, i. 375.
Wansford, Sir Christopher, his death,
i. 251.
Ward, Sir Patience, i. 191, 335.
Waseley, Captain, the Mayor of Scar-
borough tossed in a blanket by his
order, ii. 169; flies to Holland, 196;
allusion to, ii. 225.
Watson, Bishop of Ely, sent for by
the King, ii. 202.
Westminster Hall, trials at, i. 369;
Holloway's charge to the grand
jury at, 370; reported changes in,
ii. 26.
Weston, Mr. narrow escape of, ii.
124.
Wexford, account of the Spa at, ii.
112.
Weymouth, Lord, i. 131.
Whale in a creek near Maldon,
Essex, ii. 68.
Wharton, Goodwin, ii. 248, 291.
Henry, kills Moxon in a
duel, i. 40.
Thomas, ii. 323.
Whitaker, Mr. his sentence for se-
dition, i. 191.
White, Mr. i. 184, 218.
Whitehall, new chapel at, i. 213.
Widdrington, Lord,'i. 121.
Wildman, Major, ii. 297.
Williams, Sir William, ii. 6; created
a Baronet, 24.
Williamson, Sir Joseph, particulars
respecting, ii. 44.
Wiltshire, Earl of, ii. 277, 297, 313,
320.
Winchelsea, Lord, ii. 277, 364.
Winchester, Bishop of, ii. 233, 245,
247.
Winteringham, Mr. i. 202, 315.
Witham, Sir John, cause between
him and Sir Richard Dutton, i.369.
INDEX.
392
Withers, Justice, i. 101; particulars
respecting, 282.
Womack, Bishop of St. David's, his
death, i. 257.
Woollen-trade, commission appoint-
ed for its regulation, ii. 13.
Woolwich, accident at, ii. 99, 106,
116, 124.
Worcester, Marquis of, particulars
respecting, i. 291; ii. 79.
Worth, Mrs. miscarriage of, i. 58.
Wrexham, in Wales, robbery of the
church of, ii. 67.
Wright, Chief Justice, ii. 33.
Wynne, Dr. i. 333: ii. 229.
Wynne, O. letter of, i. 345.
Yarmouth, Earl of, particulars con-
cerning, i. 241.
Yeghen, Pacha, confusion at Con-
stantinople on his account, ii. 65,
74, 120; oath of, 174.
Zell, Duke of, takes possession of
Hamburgh, i. 41; withdraws his
troops, 45.
Zulestein, Mynheer, arrival of, i. 376,
378.
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